However, in "funny stick hits little ball into little hole way far away"
golf only the tied leaders go into the 'sudden death' playoff. If there are
multiple players tied for 2nd place or 18th place or whatever, there is a
formula for splitting the winnings among them. I would guess that formula
could be applied to a 1st place tie in perlgolf.
The problem of the prizes may be more difficult, but I agree with the folks
who suggest that we don't worry about it until the fat flamingo sings.
Perhaps we can go to college-level "American" Football, where the bowl berth
in case of a tie is given to the school that hasn't been there for the
longest time. Which would say that if Rick and Stephen remain alone and
tied, then Stephen would win the prize, since Rick just won tpr(0,3), and if
Michael or Petri caught up to them, and then we'd have another problem.
Back to golf^H^H^H^Hworking,
/\/\ark (BigrTex)
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Savige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:52 PM
To: Eugene van der Pijll; Ton Hospel
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The monthly golf *IS* happening
En op 19 november 2002 sprak Eugene van der Pijll:
> Why? As far as I'm concerned, it's OK to have two winners.
As is well-known, I have modelled my Career Money Leaders
Table on real golf, even going to the bother of reverse
engineering the prize-money allocation algorithm.
In real golf, there is generally only one winnner.
In regular tour events, there is a "sudden death" playoff;
in majors, it is a 5-hole playoff, or 18-hole playoff for
the prestigious US Open. (This is a shame, because Greg
Norman always seemed to find a way to lose these playoffs).
I also enjoy (-ugene's Olympic-style gold medal table.
In the Olympics, I think can you have joint gold medallists,
at least in some events.
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