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Re:Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algo... by Houshalter on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:31AM (#6834211)
Randomization isn't necessary though. Just give one player a deterministic advantage and see how high the handicap has to be for the other player to win. It's essentially the same thing.
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Re:Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algo... by thaumasiotes on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:54AM (#6834379)
The idea is the same; a dithered game can theoretically assign any real-valued probability of winning while a handicap is usually discrete.
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