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What do you call that number?

Posted By: phil Simborg
Date: Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 1:56 a.m.

In Response To: What do you call that number? (Matt Cohn-Geier)

Okay, Matt. It's like, when I want to go out to eat and Randee gives me a list of places she doesn't want to go, and then I keep guessing and she keeps saying no, I don't like that either. So instead of telling me what you don't like, tell me what you do like.

First, I want to know if this procedure is correct, because there is some confusion about it.

If I have 40 percent wins and 20 percent of the time I get gammoned and 10 percent of the time I win gammons, if I subtract 10 from 20 and get 10, and the price of gammons is .5 for both sides, that 10 has a gammon adjusted value of 5. Now if I subtract 5 from 40, I get 35. And my take point is 20, so I know it is a big take because 35 is higher than 20.

Question 1: is that an accurate way to decide if it is a take or drop? Question 2: is Stick's method any more or less accurate? Question 3: what name would you give to the 35 number?

Can I be any plainer than this?

Messages In This Thread

• What do you call that number?
  phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:10 a.m.
  • What do you call that number?
    Sam Pottle -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:24 a.m.
    • What do you call that number?
      Stick -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:34 a.m.
      • What do you call that number?
        Sam Pottle -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:39 a.m.
        • What do you call that number?
          phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:29 p.m.
          • What do you call that number?
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:52 p.m.
            • What do you call that number?
              phil Simborg -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 1:56 a.m.
              • What do you call that number?
                Stick -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 2:27 a.m.
                • What do you call that number?
                  Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 2:37 a.m.
              • What do you call that number?
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 4:11 a.m.
                • What do you call that number?
                  Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:26 a.m.
                  • What do you call that number?
                    mtuhtan -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:58 a.m.
                    • What do you call that number?
                      Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:07 a.m.
            • I kind of like ...
              garyo -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:04 a.m.
          • GAWP!
            Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:56 p.m.
            • GAWP!
              Christian Munk-Christensen -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:59 p.m.
              • GAWP!
                Casper van der Tak -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:08 p.m.
          • What do you call that number?
            John O'Hagan -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:34 p.m.
    • What do you call that number?
      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:34 a.m.
  • What do you call that number?
    Stick -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:47 a.m.
    • What do you call that number?
      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:59 a.m.
      • What do you call that number?
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 10:04 a.m.
        • What do you call that number?
          Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 7:02 p.m.
    • What do you call that number?
      phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:31 p.m.
  • What do you call that number?
    John O'Hagan -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:28 p.m.
    • Gasp!
      Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:58 p.m.
  • What do you call that number?
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:12 p.m.
    • What do you call that number?
      neilkaz -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:30 p.m.
  • What do you call that number?
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 7:43 p.m.
  • What do you call that number?
    Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 3:36 a.m.