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What do you call that number?

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 3:36 a.m.

In Response To: What do you call that number? (phil Simborg)

We had a long discussion about this on rec.games .backgammon way back in 1996. Many didn't really understand the gammon price concept back then and of those that did, it seemed most were doing it Stick's way. I argued for the way Phil explained.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.backgammon/browse_thread/thread/182729d472a90e4c/fb62b0412e2ce523?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=koca+value+of+gammons#fb62b0412e2ce523

including:

"Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon From: bo...@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Chuck Bower) Date: 1996/08/28 Subject: Re: Match Equity Tables Forward | Print | Individual message | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author

In article <4vtr0q$...@news.erie.net>, bob koca <k...@bobrae.bd.psu.edu> wrote:

(SNIP a whole bunch of explanation of his method of determining the

doubling window WITH gammons included).

OK, Bob, now I think I understand your preference. It appears that your method and the one I described are equivalent (that is they come up with the same answer). The differences are operational: your's requires more memorization, mine more calculation. Flip that coin! "

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.
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      Stick -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:34 a.m.
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        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.
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            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.
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                  Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 2:37 a.m.
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                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 4:11 a.m.
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                  Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:26 a.m.
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                    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.
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    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.