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Re: A few more stats

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From:
Stephen Turner
Date:
August 9, 2002 01:26
Subject:
Re: A few more stats
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.3.96.1020809092525.3192F-100000@gentoo
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Michael W Thelen wrote:
>
> TPR(0,4c) Factorial: 231 solutions, 66 golfers
> TPR(0,4c) Postorder: 276 solutions, 52 golfers
> TPR(0,4c) Overall:   507 solutions, 66 golfers
> 
> Overall, for both holes combined, TPR(0,4c) had 4 more golfers than TPR(0,4b)
> but 35 fewer solutions.  It had 2 more golfers than TPR(0,4) but 97 fewer
> solutions.
> 

What does this tell us? People are optimising more before submitting? How
can a course with two holes have fewer solutions than a course with just
one?

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01


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