Re: [OT] "Invisible posts", was: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

On Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 1:17:10 PM UTC+1, Peter Otten wrote: > skybuck2...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > I received a reply from somebody on my ISP newsserver. Apperently his > > reply is not visible on google groups. I wonder why, maybe it's a banned > > troll or something, but perhaps not.

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

I first explored the possibility of a lookup table to speed up calculations, this possibility would probably give wrong results. I am interested in calculating all possibilities to see which one is truely best, I am also interested in trying to speed up calculations to be able to handle larger

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Hmmm now I think the lookup table cannot work... at least not for the dynamic one... where health is subtracted... The ships have a certain health... and not just an alive/dead status... The way they and the enemy attack each other will probably influence the outcome of battle... and for the

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Hmmm I see that I have made an old mistake of mine ;) 2x2x2x2 is not 8, it's deceptive... it looks like 4x2 = 8 but nope ! :) This is 2x2=4x2=8x2=16. and then the next 4 = 16x2 = 32x2 = 64x2 = 128 x 2=256 so it's roughly 24^4 x 256 = 84934656 --

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Skybuck wrote: " Also keep in mind that an attack is only valid if the target is still alive, otherwise the attacker would move to the next one. So pre-computing an attack plan/outcome or storing it might not be so usefull for on color, since the other color might already be dead and thus

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Dennis wrote: " Instead you /now/ have ONE set of R marching down FOUR sets of B RT RD RF RP <- attackers BT BF BF BP round 1 BF

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Specially for Dennis, a nice story: There are four little animals. The first animal is a tiger, the second animal is a deer, the third animal a parrot, the fourth animal is a fish. The animals are very angry at each other and want to EAT each other ! =D However each animal has a certain

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Unless you are capable of expressing problems in numerical terms you'll have very hard luck having it computed by a computer ! ;) I did find some interesting docs about "decision trees". Exhaustive search Branch and Bound Hill Climbing Random/Best Effort Solutions and so forth. A computer

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

A nice chinese-like saying might have come out of this, perhaps it even already exists: "When you confused, the answer might be fused !" :) Sounds like TZen Su ! That dude from Art of War or something like that :) I will take this chance to correct a little pretty obvious typo corrected: (*)

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Hi thanks for your (Dennis) reply, You seem to have two main questions: 1. Is the attack order sequential in time or is it positional ? The answer to this question is kinda: Both, (which is kinda funny, since you did not think of this possibility that it could be both, which you also did with

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016, at 08:31, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > As for my posts disappearing: I run with "X-NoArchive" set. I have from > before Google absorbed DejaNews. Back then, most news-servers expired > posts > on some periodic basis (my ISP tended to hold text groups for 30 days or > so,

[OT] "Invisible posts", was: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

skybuck2...@hotmail.com wrote: > I received a reply from somebody on my ISP newsserver. Apperently his > reply is not visible on google groups. I wonder why, maybe it's a banned > troll or something, but perhaps not. No, that's Dennis Lee Bieber who doesn't want his posts to be kept, and seems

Re: Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Hello, I received a reply from somebody on my ISP newsserver. Apperently his reply is not visible on google groups. I wonder why, maybe it's a banned troll or something, but perhaps not. Anyway... my ISP has problems accessing their newsserver. They won't offer the service to new customers or

Best attack order for groups of numbers trying to destroy each other, given a victory chance for number to number attack.

Hello, (This problem is probably too computationally intensive to solve with Python, though Python + Cuda could be interesting, and also Python has some interesting expressive powers, so it could be interesting to see how Python programmers might be able to express this problem with Python