@Venki. Hmmm. Let me see. The problem specified that there were 5623 participants. That makes n = 5623. You say that n-1 games are needed, and compute that as 5621. So you are saying that 5623 - 1 = 5621. Is that some kind of new math?
Dave On Feb 25, 4:01 am, Venki <venkatcollect...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, Dave. It is simple, but small correction, we need 5621 games to > figure out the winner. > > In general, if we are having n participants we need n - 1 games to > determine the final winner. We can conclude the fact, by drawing the > tournament tree for small numbers and count for the games to be held > at each level (an omitted participant can be grouped in next level). > > Thanks, > Regards, > Venki. > > On Feb 25, 7:58 am, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote: > > > > > Simpler. Every game eliminates one participant. Since 5,622 > > participants must be eliminated to have one winner, it takes 5,622 > > games. > > > Dave > > > On Feb 24, 5:43 pm, bittu <shashank7andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If you had 5,623 participants in a tournament, how many games would > > > need to be played to determine the winner > > > > According to me if Tournament strategy is is used then i think its > > > ok... > > > > After each round, you would have half the number that started the > > > previous round; except if it were an odd number it would he half + 1. > > > So 13 rounds. > > > > 2812 1 > > > 1406 2 > > > 703 3 > > > 352 4 > > > 176 5 > > > 88 6 > > > 44 7 > > > 22 8 > > > 11 9 > > > 6 10 > > > 3 11 > > > 2 12 > > > 1 13 > > > > Correct me if i am wrong > > > Some Discussion Needed..??? > > > > Thanks > > > Shashank >> "The Best Way to Escape From The Problem is to Solve It"- > > > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
