POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Some math problems : Re: Some math problems Server Time
5 Sep 2024 09:21:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Some math problems  
From: Warp
Date: 24 Sep 2009 03:45:42
Message: <4abb23a5@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Warp schrieb:
> > 
> >> I think that very much depends on whether the sequence is
> > 
> >>    1 - 3 - 5 - 7 -  9 - ...
> > 
> >> or
> > 
> >>    1 - 3 - 5 - 9 - 17 - ...
> > 
> >   How would "four out of nine" work? If there are nine tosses, four wins
> > wouldn't yet be decisive.
> > 
> >   Of course it's "4 out of 7", "5 out of 9", "6 out of 11" and so on.

> Who says that the bloke will demand 4 out of anything, and not just skip 
> on to 5 out of 9 ?

  While he is at it, while not skip directly to 1000 out of 1999?

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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