Re^11: Perl Golf Ethics

Clearly, yes

It's not clear to me. ;-) Why do you think it fair? Clearly, if you took any two individuals from the 150-200 stroke range and put them together, they could not possibly do any worse and almost certainly could shave quite a few strokes (as you and Pete did) by combining their ideas.

Notice that TPR did not think it fair in TPR(0,6) (and others) where their rules stated:

There is also a special leaderboard for teams. There will be no prizes awarded to the best team, other than the admiration of your fellow golfers. If you are in a team, you can't also play individually.

Admittedly, it probably makes less difference at the sharp end of the leaderboard. For example, though I would be honoured to pair with Ton, I'm sure it would not improve our score one iota. :-)

Update: There is some luck involved on who you pair with. For example, pairing with pijll wouldn't have helped much because we both found the formula and both missed the symbolic reference trick. However, pijll or me pairing with Jasper or ambrus would be in the running for third place because one found the formula, the other the symref trick.

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Re^12: Perl Golf Ethics by petdance (Parson) on Jan 07, 2007 at 15:32 UTC
It's not clear to me. ;-) That's fine. I meant that it was clear from my actions that I thought it was OK. xoxo, Andy	[reply]
Re^13: Perl Golf Ethics by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jan 07, 2007 at 20:19 UTC
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Let me try to persuade you that it's unfair to allow pairing up, with a scenario featuring TedYoung (since this is his node). Ted has performed brilliantly and is delighted to have finally strengthened his grip on third place. He is well satisified as he sits back and surveys the leaderboard: `3rd 107 TedYoung 4th 111 jojo 5th 114 szeryf 6th 118 pijll 7th 119 Sec 8th 122 eyepopslikeamosquito 9th 125 Jasper` [download] Then, with one hour to go, Ted almost chokes on his celebratory beer when the leaderboard is refreshed: `3rd 104 jojo/szeryf 4th 105 pijll/Sec 5th 106 eyepopslikeamosquito/Jasper 6th 107 TedYoung` [download] Instead of using his fist to grab his well-earned 3rd place prize money, he is now shaking it in fury at the six golfers who ganged up on him. :-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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