Oops I broke the laws of math.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Well, of course, that's right Rubix, dude how does your brain work? How did you decide to group the bags the way you did?

[leonid]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Solving a LOT of puzzles would work i guess

[MrRubix]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Well, of course, that's right Rubix, dude how does your brain work? How did you decide to group the bags the way you did?

I've done problems like that countless times before -- it's kinda second nature by now. In my opinion, one of the best ways to learn how to problemsolve is to just solve problems. Over the years, you do so many of them that it becomes easier to figure out when to apply certain logic to certain problems. For instance, in this case it's a good idea to work with triplet groups, since triplets allow for the easiest way to operate on a "if these two groups don't equate, then the residual group has the odd one out" style of solving.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Are you good at keybeat Rubix?

And what does a Rubik's cube look like when you do your siggy?

[MrRubix]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Nope


My ring fingers are retarded

[leonid]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

And what does a Rubik's cube look like when you do your siggy?

LOL

[MrRubix]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

And what does a Rubik's cube look like when you do your siggy?

Each algorithm is on its own line -- one algorithm per cube.

[emerald000]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Expected gain for your 52 cards draw game is 3.7316053312...$

[MrRubix]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Under what strategy?

The optimal solution has many possible (weighted) payoffs.

[korny]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

I only learned the math that was necessary for every day living.

[Divinefury]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Ugh rubix you could have said that the algorithms were seperate i tried doing the whole thing on one cube

[emerald000]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Under what strategy?

The strategy is weird, but it is composed as followed. Format: (Number of blacks drawn---stop if you have drawn that much reds)

0---8
1---9
2---10
3---11
4---12
5---13
6---14
7---15
8---16
9---16
10---17
11---18
12---19
13---20
14---21
15---22
16---23
17---24
18---25
19---26
20---26
21---27
22---28
23---29
24---30
25---31
26---32
27---33
28---34
29---34
30---35
31---36
32---37
33---38
34---39
35---40
36---40
37---41
38---42
39---43
40---44
41---45
42---45
43---46
44---47
45---48
46---49
47---49
48---50
49---51
50---51
51---52
52---52

[leonid]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Are you assuming a deck has 52 blacks and 52 reds?

[emerald000]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

*Goes hide in a corner...*

Let me modify that a bit.

Expected outcome: 2.62447554899

0---6
1---7
2---8
3---8
4---9
5---10
6---11
7---12
8---13
9---14
10---14
11---15
12---16
13---17
14---18
15---19
16---19
17---20
18---21
19---22
20---23
21---23
22---24
23---25
24---25
25---26
26---26

Should be better.

A big lol at me for actually figuring out how to do the problem but not how to count how much blacks/reds there are in a deck of cards.

[stargroup]

Re: Oops I broke the laws of math.

Come on man, sack up and at least give it a try. It is hard (it took me literally all day to solve before I was certain of my answer), but it isn't impossible.

dude, you don't understand

I have one week to finish college apps, annotations for a a book and a paper to go along with it

stop making me look like an ass do you really think I would pass up a math problem