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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: The Rifleman Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.185133.18429@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:51:33 GMT
- References: <Dec15.235132.63842@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <Dec18.162314.53024@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <Dec18.162314.53024@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, boll@CS.ColoState.EDU (dave boll) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec18.033119.19454@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- >> In article <Dec15.235132.63842@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, boll@CS.ColoState.EDU (dave boll) writes:
- >>> N riflemen are situated randomly on a plane.
- >> Um, this needs more precision.
- > Well, I believe this caused some confusion during the Omni puzzle as
- > well. As I dimly recall, some people used a circle, some a square.
- > I think the most 'elegant' solution is the surface of a sphere, as
- > this eliminates boundary situations.
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- It also flies in the face of the problem statement! "...on a plane"
- does not, to me, seem to permit using a sphere.
-
- Also, what about distance ties? Or are they ignored as a set of
- probability zero?
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- der Mouse
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