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Old August 6th, 2003, 10:57 PM
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There is certainly a formula for it, we just do not know it. Any professional mathematicians out there?
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Choose 2 from N, since order is unimportant.
On my calculator, that's the "nCr" button
For N=27, that's 351 games to be played round-robin.

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27 players in games of three, where each player must play every other player once and only once. Each player only has to play 13 games total.
No; Player 1 goes up against all 26 other players. Similarily for the others, so that's 26 games total for each player.

26games*27people = 702 plays
That makes for 351 two-player games.

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But, each player only plays the others once each, so it does not work for larger games than 2 player ones.
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More than two players would get you problems with teaming up, I imagine.
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Has something to do with "Pigeon Holing
Geo I don't know if these help. I did a search at google on the formula:

http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES...06/fact-2.html

This is a word doc:
http://www.cecs.csulb.edu/~lam/cecs228/ch4.doc

I think this is a powerpoint presentation:
file:///D:/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/I56W66T4/275,10,r-permutations

This one seemed the simplest:
http://fclass.vaniercollege.qc.ca/we...ombs_Intro.htm
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This site has
"Real Life Mathmatics" and includes calculators.
http://fclass.vaniercollege.qc.ca/we...real/2real.htm

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Oh well, too little too late but I did learn a lot and the above link has some interesting math described in laymens terms. It also has some math word puzzles under the "Teasers"

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More than two players would get you problems with teaming up, I imagine.
Yes, and it is not meant for 2-player games.
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