August 6th, 2003, 10:55 PM
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Re: Math problem
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Originally posted by Slick:
Nevermind. Forget everything I said. C(n,r) is the wrong formula for this. Sorry for the confusion. 
Slick.
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That's allright. I got Fyron to explain to me offline how that formula worked and it is interesting. It's close, but as you say not exactly right. It looks like it's counting all possible combinations, instead of each player facing every other player once and only once.
Maybe there is no forumla and LGM's way is the solution. Or maybe there is one and we'll all get the Nobel prize for mathematics for working it out. 
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