Recent content by Josan

I don't understand this, I would expect the $-1 row to be all 0. As the computer would never (it isn't allowed) choose this row. I found my error. It was the entire 2. column. I had written in my program that if the computer had 1 marble left, the player needed 1 more money than the computer...

I did it! Using the matrix method, I was able to quickly write a short program in python that finds the 175 answer in 0.22 seconds. However, I need your help borrofburi, has something weird has emerged. Here is my final table showing what money you need to win. The element i,j shows what you...

Hmm, I think I need to go back to the drawing board. Basicly I wrote a program that looks at a state, determines what bids A can make from that state, look at the 2 derivate states from those bids (Overbid and No Bid), and look at those states in the same way I looked at the original state...

Congratulations, you definitly beat me to it. I still can't find any bugs in my own program. So I think I need to scrap the entire thing and start fresh. Mind posting your code, so I can look at it? That was just insane...

Indeed, Python's dictionary feature is quite handy and easy to use, altough I haven't actually used dictionaries in my code so far, I might have to change into it, for efficiency. Doing my best, but isn't that good at coding yet, so getting a lot of silly answers for now. As for the elegent...

Wow, this is basicly what I have been doing all day. Never heard about a minimax before seeing your comment here, but had already typed up some code doing it recursive. It's quite hard to optimize now, I'll have to read up a bit it seems ;)

Thanks! Although, when reading it, I realize it might be a bit (a lot) beyond my programming capabilites, but I'll give it a shot. No, it isn't. Just doing it because my mind likes a puzzle.

I'm doing it in python =)

I'm trying to do this, but only learned programming recently, so finding it quite challening.

Great! We have a discussion going. A lot of good suggestions being thrown around. I used most of the day trying to solve it by programming, got a program I think should work now, but it gives 205 as an aswer, which seems to high. Guess I have a logical flaw or 2 or maybe just some bugs I need...

Hey guys, A friend gave me this game, telling me he has been using a lot of time over the past year on it without really getting anywhere. I've wrecked my brain, but just can't seem to get a foothold. I think an analytical solution might be way beyond my mathematical capabilites, and when it...

Well. The problem is the term "anti-gravity" in itself is quite vague, and is rarely used in physics. Pulling the definiton from wikipedia shows: "In physical cosmology, astronomy and celestial mechanics, anti-gravity is the idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of...

Have been really busy with uni. and a new job, so haven't been that active online lately. But thought I should just pop back in to wish LoR a happy anniversary. Rock on.

That's not really doublethink though. It's just a case of "Well, sure they are dangerous, but the benefits far outweigh the costs". As Prolescum explained. The ideas: 1. Mobile phones are bad for your health 2. Mobile phones are extremely practical Are far from contrary. In fact, you could...

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