Hello,

I'm having trouble understanding the relationship of the word "tie" and 
"tiebreaker" to the explanation of this parameter on the wiki.
What two (or more things) are in a tie? and how does the number in the range 
from 0 to 1 break the tie?

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin#tie_.28Tie_breaker.29

"A value of "0.0" makes the query a pure "disjunction max query" -- only the 
maximum scoring sub query contributes to the final score. A value of "1.0" 
makes the query a pure "disjunction sum query" where it doesn't matter what the 
maximum scoring sub query is, the final score is the sum of the sub scores. 
Typically a low value (ie: 0.1) is useful."

Tom Burton-West

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