Molly Mae
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Post is gonna be a tad late as my phone is updating. =/
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But why take the sequence mod 9, begin at an arbitrary point (not the beginning), and then modify the sequence by swapping 0's and 9's? It seems like a bit of a stretch to me.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that G isn't the end of morning. It may very well be the last letter of the word, but it certainly isn't the end of morning. It shall come again! One thing in common Have you and me Where you are G And I jubilee!
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On my drive home, I actually thought further about this and realised that there's a flaw in my logic above. But now I can't seem to get this problem out of my head. There must be more than an instant where the fly decelerates. Like Newton's Cradle. But this also assumes that the fly and train are traveling directly toward each other and that the fly's direction of travel changes by exactly 180 degrees. Otherwise, I will argue that the fly will never be at 0 k/h.
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Well, let's look at it another way. Imagine a t-ball is resting and waiting to be hit from the tee. You swing the bat and there is a one-way* energy transfer (the ball has 0 momentum at rest) that gives the ball momentum. Now we throw a ball at a brick wall. When it hits, the ball loses momentum* and falls to the ground. Now, let's combine the two. The ball is at 0 k/h only before the bat makes contact, but only after it hits the wall. Is there any time between these two events? In the fly + train problem, there isn't. They're the same event. The only conclusion, then, is that if there is ever a time when the ball/fly is at 0 k/h, it must be at the exact moment of impact. *Per Newton's Third Law of Motion, this isn't true, but we're not really concerned with the extra details.
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Only admit selfish and proud go players into the tournament.
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I was the same way. It took me quite awhile to grasp why there needed to be a guru (or someone who says something).
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This might sound a bit skewed, but number all players 1 to 8 from lowest ranked to highest ranked. Starting with number 1, let him choose his opponent. Continue down the list until 7. When you come to a player who has already been chosen by someone, skip him. The lower ranked player should always play black, as well. This strays from my previous attempt to mathematically define fair, but if this were a real tournament (as it sounds) and I were hosting it, I would probably use this method for chess or go assuming that all players are ranked by the same organisation and that all rankings are current.
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Plot it and you'll find the speed change as the time changes, I'm sure. It just takes billionths of a second to decelerate to 0 and then accelerate in the opposite direction. Ah, but I think I'm starting to see the paradox. If the point of impact is 0, why is the fly decelerating before impact? Regardless, I believe that there would be a point where the fly is traveling at 0 km/h in the same manner that a ball thrown straight up into the air will eventually stop and begin to accelerate back toward earth. Sure the acceleration of gravity isn't initially as forceful as a train pushing a fly in the opposite direction, but it's still an outside force.
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Agreed that the type of tournament is important to the solution, but I'll go out on a limb and try to define "fairness" List all players from lowest rank to highest rank 1 through 8. Any player's rank is n. Assume all players have a unique rank and that the difference between any two consecutive ranks is constant. Absolute fairness might be achieved if nx = (nO)/r where nO is the total rank of all opponents and r is number of rounds played. Such a situation is not possible in this game (all games played by 1 and 8 bring them further from their average), but it's the best way I can assume fairness. EDIT: Revised wording.
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The clap shouldn't be sarcastic. It's a very serious thing. =P
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Day 2: Hostage Crisis "Well we need to choose quickly," someone said. "Lets bind Araver and use him to escape," plasmid suggested. Everyone nodded and turned to Araver, who glared at Plasmid. "Who are you to determine my fate?" They all turned to Plasmid, expecting an answer. His face was a mask of seriousness. "I'm the doctor." ... "Doctor who?" Bound and gagged, they took Araver outside and confronted the police force. And the police didn't open fire... "We're making our escape now," one of them said. "Here are our demands..." Host: Yuli and Molly Mae 1. plasmid 2. Flamebirde 3. MiKi 4. 'Cat'astrophe - DEAD - Lynched D1 and found to be a legitimate gangster 5. KlueMaster - DEAD - Killed N2 6. maurice - DEAD - Killed N1 7. Auramyna 8. Araver - Bound and gagged and used as a hostage, since he was an undercover cop N3 ends in 24 hours (around 1030 am Central Time).
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Day post coming shortly.
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Alive and kicking. Mafia slows down after the summer. That's why there was such a big initiative during the summer. *Shrug* Happens all the time.
