Yep, the four scores would be 1 point conversion, 2 point conversion or a safety, 3 point field goal, and a 6 point touchdown. Although the 1 point can only come after a 6 point touchdown, so any score with just a 1 point would not be possible, but in theory, you could have 2-2, 4-4 etc.
2010/1/5 Eliot Miranda <eliot.mira...@gmail.com> > > > 2010/1/5 John Toohey <j...@parspro.com> > > :-) >> >> I don't suppose you have an equally elegant solution to the scores for a >> NFL game, where the units can be 1,2,3,6, assuming that each team could >> score a total of say, 35 points. >> > > Since the increments include 1 this is equivalent to (0 to: max) > allPairsDo: ... i.e. it is possible for a team to continue to score a > single point, therefore the possible pairs of scores are all the pairs from > 0 to N. > > But isn't American Football more complex? an't you only score 1 after > scoring a touchdown? What are the scoring rules? In any case your numbers > are so small that you can use brute force and enumerate all possible > combinations, filtering totals that exceed your limit. > > >> >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 21:26, Randal L. Schwartz >> <mer...@stonehenge.com>wrote: >> >>> >>>>> "John" == John Toohey <j...@parspro.com> writes: >>> >>> John> Thank you, duly chastened. I did know the formulae for P and C, but >>> didn't >>> John> know how to add the repetitions. My original code was :- >>> John> |c| >>> John> c := SortedCollection new. >>> John> c add: '0, 0'; add:'1, 1'; add: '2, 2'; add:'3, 3'; add: '4, 4'. >>> John> (0 to: 4) combinations: 2 atATimeDo:[:each | c add: each >>> asCommaString. c >>> John> add:( each reverse) asCommaString]. >>> >>> "Every time I cut with this wide saw, it removes 1/2 inch from the wood! >>> I'll just glue it back after the cuts!" >>> >>> "why don't you just use the laser cutter? no losses!" >>> >>> :-) >>> >>> -- >>> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 >>> 0095 >>> <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> >>> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. >>> See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside >>> discussion >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -JT >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- -JT
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