Re:Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors
by gus_massa on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:48AM
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> Example 2: ... The zoo attendants have a $1000 pool going and you have to bet on which baby will weigh the most when born.
There are some games that have a single property that is clearly sortable, like weight. In this case clearly the there is one winner. (Actually, here you have a distribution of weight, like the average and the dispersion. So it may be more complicated.)
There are more complicated games. When I was young we had cards with the properties of cars, like weight, length, price, and other stuff. The game was to pick the card at the top and pick a property, and compare with the same property of the top card of the other player. Some cards were stronger than other. I don't remember the strongest card, but I guess there was one. Anyway, that card didn't win against all cards, it was just good against most card, but you could be unlucky if it was at the top of your deck and the other player selected one of the bad properties of the best card.
There are some games that have a single property that is clearly sortable, like weight. In this case clearly the there is one winner. (Actually, here you have a distribution of weight, like the average and the dispersion. So it may be more complicated.)
There are more complicated games. When I was young we had cards with the properties of cars, like weight, length, price, and other stuff. The game was to pick the card at the top and pick a property, and compare with the same property of the top card of the other player. Some cards were stronger than other. I don't remember the strongest card, but I guess there was one. Anyway, that card didn't win against all cards, it was just good against most card, but you could be unlucky if it was at the top of your deck and the other player selected one of the bad properties of the best card.