From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-11-14T01:42:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Countdown (#7)

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:28:50 +0900
James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2004, at 7:18 AM, daz wrote:
> 
> > It's not allowed in the television game:
> >
> >  "... all the steps to the solution must be whole numbers.
> >   e.g. You cannot start by dividing 7 by 5 and then use
> >   1.4 in subsequent steps."
> 
> This is interesting information, especially to someone like me who is 
> not familiar with the game show.  To be fair, it was not mentioned in 
> the quiz, that I can see.
> 
> James Edward Gray II
> 
> 

Even the opposite applies:

From the quiz:
>Normal arithmetic rules apply, and in particular you are not allowed to >use integer rounding. That is, 7 divided by 3 is 2 1/3, not 2.

I conlude from this, that it is allowed to calculate using fractions.

I think it is really interesting to see, that in this quiz as in the real world a perfect specification is only achievable with an unproportional amount of work. So that is where the classic waterfall modell has its weakness. /Lets all programm pragmatically, and include feedback/ ;).

Regards,

Brian


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