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Gorash wrote:
A pirate will just never accept 0 gold without a very good reason.
What I meant in my post is that the primary objective of the pirate is to get as much gold as possible, and the secondary objective is walking the most pirates. So, for example, if any pirate has an option of getting 1 gold and walking no pirates, or getting 0 gold and walking 50135 pirates, he'll try to get 1 gold and walk no one.
So, a pirate will only accept 0 gold if he knows he can't get more.
flagitious wrote:
If there are 2 pirates, the wildest will get them all because he can vote for himself giving him the needed 50%. If there are 3, then the wildest can propose to give himself all. And he will win because the least wildest won't get any anyways so will accept. This is then repeated.
In the case with 2 pirates, that is right. With 3 pirates with the proposer proposing (100, 0, 0) will vote yes, the 2nd wildest will vote no, as he can get 100 if the first one walks, and the third one will vote no, as if he votes yes he gets 0 gold and 0 walks, and voting no he gets 0 gold and 1 walks.
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Essentially, between getting X gold and walking N pirates and getting X gold and walking N + 1 pirates, the pirate will choose to get X gold and walk N + 1 pirates.
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moozooh wrote:
No, what I'm saying is, the author will always want to vote for their own run, due to the obvious bias involved. Which is why it's strictly prohibited in every possible voting system where the result is important for whatever reason. Not to say that it's just classless.
At least in Brazil, when there is an election the candidates do vote. And I wouldn't say that the result of presidential elections isn't important...
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Truncated wrote:
Currently there are a few runs which have been sitting on Accepted status for a while without anyone encoding them. Perhaps we should get more encoders first.
After I finish tuning my Linux up I can do some encoding, my PC has lots of idle time that encoding could use ;)
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schneelocke wrote:
moozooh wrote:
schneelocke wrote:
"Exter" could be the German version of the Russian surname "Экстер", I think.
Eh? Экстер can't originate from Russian, it doesn't even sound alike. Most of the russian surnames end with -ов/-ова (-ov/-ova), -ев/-ева (-ev/-eva) or -ин/-ина (-in/-ina), and a significant part of them originate from one of the common russian first names (Ivan -> Ivanov). I.e. my surname is Сергеев, transliterated as "Sergeev" or, which is more accurate, "Sergeyev"; it originates from the first name Сергей (Sergey). Sometimes you can see strange russian surnames which originate from certain russian words, but that's pretty uncommon. The pattern descripted above is right in about 95% of cases.
Mmm. May be, too - I'm not an expert on Russian names. I just happened to remember that there was a Russian painter of that name (Александра Экстер / Alexandra Exter). ^_~
Couldn't be that painter a russian with german ancestry?
Ok, I'm german and swedish descendant. Can anyone guess my hair's color?
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schneelocke wrote:
TigerTjäder wrote:
And yes, I already knew what it means. :) (Though I don't know what Exterckötter means, and it may be spelled wrong, as my uncle's name is spelled Exterkotter, and some other persons in the family have Exterchotter and other things like that, so it probably got corrupted somewere in time... but I think the right way is Exterkotter, because I've heard that it's a fusion of the families Exter and Kotter, and I've found some info on those.)
None of these (Exterckötter, Exterkotter, Exterchotter) give even so much as a single hit when you search for German websites mentioning them on Google. o.o I'm not aware of "Exter" or "Kotter" as surnames, either (although that of course doesn't mean they don't exist).
Are you sure it's German?
Yes I am, my greatgrandfather or greatgreatgrandfather or something like that came from Germany a lot of years ago, and on my grandfather's house there's two papers from an surname researching foundation about the family Exter and the family Kotter, with the family coat of arms, a bit of the family history, etc.
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Truncated wrote:
Excuse me for saying it, but that has to be the weirdest name I've ever seen. :) Do you know what a Tjäder is in Swedish, even though you don't speak it?
Hint: bottom right
Yeah, my name is very weird, even more in Portuguese, no one can pronounce it in the right way without proper instructions :p and some persons can't pronounce it even with the proper instructions =p.
And yes, I already knew what it means. :) (Though I don't know what Exterckötter means, and it may be spelled wrong, as my uncle's name is spelled Exterkotter, and some other persons in the family have Exterchotter and other things like that, so it probably got corrupted somewere in time... but I think the right way is Exterkotter, because I've heard that it's a fusion of the families Exter and Kotter, and I've found some info on those.)
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Truncated wrote:
I have to ask TigerTjäder... how come you say your first language is Portugese, others English and Spanish, but you have a user name which can only be interpreted in Swedish (as far as I can see)?
Well, I'm Brazilian, I write and read English pretty well, have a little understanding of Spanish, and Tjäder is my surname, of Swedish origin. And my middle name is Exterckötter, of German origin. And, no, my first name is not Tiger, it's Rodrigo.
