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A Chinese Mathematician Figured Out How To Beat Anyone At Rock-Paper-Scissors
Business Insider ^ | 05/02/2014 | HARRISON JACOBS

Posted on 05/02/2014 4:09:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: RegulatorCountry

It’s similar to Tic Tack Toe. A waist of time brought on by boredom. I won’t get into the merits of doing a study on Rock, Paper, Scissors game theory.


21 posted on 05/02/2014 5:05:42 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: SeekAndFind

22 posted on 05/02/2014 5:09:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Has he figured out how to beat the chicken playing tic tac toe yet?


23 posted on 05/02/2014 5:19:21 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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“Has he figured out how to beat the chicken playing tic tac toe yet?”

Don’t let the chicken go first.


24 posted on 05/02/2014 6:01:32 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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25 posted on 05/02/2014 7:10:18 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.


26 posted on 05/02/2014 7:13:08 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

I thought it was rock-paper-scissors-match-gun.

Let’s see....scissors cuts paper, rock smashes scissors.
paper smothers rock. Match burns paper but scissors cuts match.....meaning that paper beats gun, and gun beats scissors.

R P S M G
R 0 - + ? ?
P + 0 - - +
S - + 0 + -
M ? + - 0 ?
G ? - + ? 0

Dang, I forget....rock beats either match or gun and loses to the other. If rock beats match then match beats gun.
If rock beats gun then gun beats match.

What the heck is lizard? Is Spock the “live long and prosper” or the Vulcan nerve pinch....that’s close to gun.


27 posted on 05/02/2014 7:17:14 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: EEGator

“paper disproves Spock”

lol!


28 posted on 05/02/2014 7:21:05 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: scrabblehack

It’s from the Big Bang Theory sitcom.


29 posted on 05/02/2014 7:25:41 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Choosing scissors can get you expelled from school.

So keep choosing paper to bait your enemy into choosing scissors.


30 posted on 05/02/2014 7:46:33 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: dfwgator

Hah...very good. :-)


31 posted on 05/02/2014 11:05:08 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: goodwithagun
Sheldon is a great character.
32 posted on 05/03/2014 3:20:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: goodwithagun; EEGator

Mine is from my misspent youth when we got bored from rock-paper-scissors. Although it raises some interesting questions:

How do match and gun fare against lizard and Spock?
Obviously one of each set has to beat one of the other set.

I think gun has to shoot lizard but then Spock vaporizes gun.
Which means that lizard eats match but match burns Spock.

I am thinking that match burns rock....the rock is a lump of coal or something. Which means that rock smashes gun, and gun lights match.

Also it looks like Spock is the Live Long and Prosper sign.
How is lizard formed? Post 25 looks a little too close to rock.


33 posted on 05/03/2014 8:17:43 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: goodwithagun; EEGator

Better story: Spock realizes the gun isn’t real (allusion to the episode Spectre of the Gun).


34 posted on 05/08/2014 7:17:10 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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