On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Adam Spiers wrote: > > Nice. But can I suggest that it should be a step function? Draw a line > > rightwards from each submission, and drop vertically when the next > > submission comes in. Also draw a line rightwards from the most recent > > submission to the current time. > > I thought about that too, but decided not to bother, because not > everyone submits every solution they come up with. (For the referees' > sake, I hope noone does!)
Well, uh, I do! (And I am stuck at 119 mainly because I played for only one afternoon (work and stuff, you know... :-( )) Since PGAS and Games::Golf are meant to automate the process as much as possible, I think that we should make the most use of the database. And when two lines cross, if it's a step function, you know when someone actully made better than the other. > Might be worth having both modes as an option, I suppose, although I'm > not sure how well the various charting programs support step > functions. More options, the better. I don't think charting programs support step functions very well. They mostly do histograms (but all the steps are the same width). Even Excel doesn't do them well... ;-) I suppose the only solution is to filter (and expand) the data before giving it to a charting package. > > Oh, and I don't think golfers with only one submission appear at all > > at the moment. They should have a horizontal line starting from their first submission, till either now or the end of the game... -- Philippe BRUHAT - BooK Financez le d�veloppement de Perl, avec YAS et les Mongueurs de Perl ! http://www.mongueurs.net/association/actions/pdg2002.html
