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Been meaning to jump in on the quiz, but haven't had the time... I can't
believe it's Wednesday already.=20

The attached just judges the solution on a number of criteria - I don't
like that bob's solution has some people playing others 4 times and
others only once... seems it should work more evenly than that, but busy
busy busy....

I did get as far as calling my class LogicalChart in response to bob's
(because I ripped off the framework in the hope of getting further).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james / grayproductions.net]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 4:00 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: [QUIZ][SOLUTION] Pinewood Derby Chart (#56)
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> On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Bob Showalter wrote:
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> > The core of my solution is at:
> >
> >   http://users.adelphia.net/~showaltb/rubyquiz/56/derby.rb
> >
> > It assigns cars by computing a "weight" factor for each car=20
> based on=20
> > the  following criteria:
> >
> >   a) How many times has the car been assigned to this lane?
> >   b) How many times has the car been matched up against the=20
> opponents
> >      already slotted to this heat?
> >   c) How long has it been since the car was last scheduled=20
> to a heat?
> >
> > The weight factors act as a bias against selecting a car.
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> I dig any Ruby program with a class called ChaoticChart! =20
> Seriously, this is a very interesting solution to read.  Must=20
> by why you scared all the others off.  You just can't compete=20
> with true chaos.  ;)
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> James Edward Gray II
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