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tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN
hello. My request is to know the statistical chance of a battleship game to come down to the last "attack". For example I, player a, have two spots left to guess because I hit one of his two battleship spots. He has only one attack left as he has hit my battle ship and only has one open attack left so essentially there is a 50% chance if I win or not. What are the statistical chance this happens and please no trolls.

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tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN

resistentialism posted:

Sorry, you lost too many of the pegs, so if the game doesn't end early you just have to put it away again without playing the last turns.

No there are enough pieces

tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN
Bump

tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN

GAYS FOR DAYS posted:

0% because no one plays that dumb game.


How big is the grid on that game? 14 X 14? 10 X 10? You could definitely get a real answer by asking in the math questions thread in Science, Academics, and Languages.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2347479

While the first part of your post was cruel and unnecessary, thank you for the latter part, especially as it was not coupled with a tepid burn that was unhelpful and unkind

tbp
Mar 1, 2008

DU WIRST NIEMALS ALLEINE MARSCHIEREN

spud posted:

"Hello. i am going to copy and paste the question i asked previous in GBS, the forum filled with fuckshit trolls who did not do anything to help me figure out my endeavor. now i turn to thee, math thread, filled with wondrous knowledge of mathematics:"

He called us fuckshit trolls!

Or did we just get trolled? a 2008 can't be this dumb (about the forums, not the battleship thing....hosed if I know about that).

There were several trolls contained within this thread that were inflammatory, uninspired and unnecessary. However, I do not speak for all of GBS - just that I notice a certain "infestation". As for your latter part, well, I have never once trolled in my life.

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