Yanick writes: > Rally golf. > > Pick a team. Golfer A produces a first solution and passes > it to golfer B. Golfer B cannot passes it to golfer C before > he manages to ameliorate the solution's score. The team has > the advantage of having many brains on the problem, but is > as vulnerable as its weakest link. Imagine the kind of > peer pressure it would generate if you have the like of > Eugene and Ton in your team. Oh, the angst, the sheer > angst of it. :)
Interesting idea. But, you have to precisely define what "ameliorate" means. Someone can take my 107 solution, and completely re-write it to a 70-something solution. Is this part of the rules? Is changing map to for legal? What about switching to a while loop? What about more radical changes? --Ala
