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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: SeekAndFind
What about rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock?
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:13:08 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:15:23 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is Hugh and Series, why isn’t it in Breaking news?
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:16:36 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
To: SeekAndFind
No mathematician would trouble themselves with this foolishness for even a second.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:19:44 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: goodwithagun
I think Kramer figured it out before that: Rock beats everything.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:19:57 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: SeekAndFind
In other words its impossible to do anything randomly because there is no such thing.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:21:00 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(.)
To: SeekAndFind
For your opening round, always start with paper.
Most players choose rock for their opening hand, because since it represents a fist, it projects a powerful image.
Paper, in fact, is the most powerful and underappreciated weapon in the game.
To: SeekAndFind
Nash says he recovered his sanity "with the rejection of politically oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort."
Touché!
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:28:46 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: SeekAndFind
What happens if he plays a round with another chap using the same formula ?
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:31:55 PM PDT
by
wonkowasright
(Wonko from outside the asylum)
To: editor-surveyor
This is very serious stuff, it might win wars.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:35:32 PM PDT
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:35:54 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: gundog
Rock flys right thru paper
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:38:20 PM PDT
by
snappahead
(if your gonna be dumb, you better be tough.)
To: Vinylly
If you read the article cogently, they are saying that there is no system to win.
Consistency is the only way to keep it even 50/50.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:44:10 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: wonkowasright
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:45:39 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SeekAndFind
So THIS is what the Chinese are doing with all our money!
Worthless research and easy jobs for so-called scientists, well, they learned it from the best...us.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:46:18 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: SeekAndFind
I’ve never really played that game and can’t say that I really understand it. Is there some sort of hierarchy as far as what you can begin with, or is it whatever you decide to go with? Are there further “rounds” in the same game or is it like flipping a coin?
To: snappahead
Yeah. Pretty funny watching Mickey and Kramer playing rock vs. rock.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:54:45 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: goodwithagun
Depending on the stakes, I prefer “Rock - Paper - Scissor - Glock”.
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posted on
05/02/2014 4:54:51 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
To: Kickass Conservative
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posted on
05/02/2014 5:04:55 PM PDT
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KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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