then A is greater than C.







but not in rock, paper, scissors.

10/2/2008 10:19:24 PM

stop the presses

10/2/2008 10:19:59 PM

TOO

MUCH

MATH

10/2/2008 10:20:04 PM

wait, what?

10/2/2008 10:21:15 PM

10/2/2008 10:22:05 PM

how about man, bomb, gun

10/2/2008 10:22:35 PM

man > bomb?

10/2/2008 10:23:03 PM

yup, defuses it

10/2/2008 10:23:28 PM

what if he doesnt have any arms

10/2/2008 10:24:02 PM

then he could at least run away

10/2/2008 10:24:38 PM

not if his leg was trapped underneath a grandfather clock

grandfather clock>man

[Edited on October 2, 2008 at 10:25 PM. Reason : ]

10/2/2008 10:25:26 PM

oh, what the google (wiki) can teach us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-paper-scissors#Non-transitivity

10/2/2008 10:29:29 PM

no shit. I actually read it in an article about an Auburn philosophy professor, but no big surprise that Wiki has it.

10/3/2008 12:06:35 AM

From that wiki link

Quote :

"Auction house RPS match Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan sold for $11,776,000 at Christie's[13].When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of Impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso and van Gogh, he contacted two leading U.S. auction houses, Christie's International and Sotheby's Holdings, seeking their proposals on how they would bring the collection to the market as well as how they would maximize the profits from the sale. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama’s business. Willing to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would get the Cézanne's "Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12-16 million. The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to play RPS, to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good". The auction houses had a weekend to come up with a choice of move. Christie's went to the 11-year-old twin daughters of an employee, who suggested "scissors" because "Everybody expects you to choose 'rock'." Sotheby's said that they treated it as a game of chance and had no particular strategy for the game, but went with "paper".[14] Christie's won the match, with millions of dollars of commission for the auction house."

10/3/2008 12:12:32 AM

thats a pretty intense wiki page

10/3/2008 12:12:50 AM

quantitative greatness is not the same as qualitative greatness

10/3/2008 1:02:50 AM

zero has been divided by

you just blew my mind

10/3/2008 1:03:43 AM

10/3/2008 1:11:03 AM

10/3/2008 1:25:30 AM

Quote :

"With an odd number of choices, each beats half the weapons and loses to half the weapons. No even number of weapons can be made balanced, unless some pairs of weapons result in a draw; there will always be some weapons superior to others. These also lose some of the aesthetic elegance of the game, which is otherwise one of the simplest possible games of skill. An example of an unbalanced four-weapon game adds "dynamite" as a trump. Dynamite, expressed as the extended index finger or thumb, always defeats rock, but is defeated by scissors. The paper-dynamite relationship is disputed; using it as a trump generally implies that "dynamite shreds paper," but there are those who claim that the paper would supposedly smother the wick.[citation needed] Because of this dispute (and the potential unfair advantage that would result), organized rock-paper-scissors contests never use dynamite.[6] The official roshambo rules of the Ultimate Players Association add "fire" and "water" as potential trumps. Fire will beat any of the standard weapons (rock, paper, scissors), but a player may only throw it once in his entire lifetime. Water may be played as many times as one wishes, but loses to any throw except fire. (Those who adopt this trump depend on good sportsmanship to enforce the once-per-lifetime rule.)[7] One popular balanced five-weapon expansion adds "Spock" and "lizard" to the standard three. "Spock" is signified with the "live long and prosper" hand gesture, while "lizard" is shown by forming the hand into a sock-puppet-like mouth. Spock crushes scissors and vaporizes rock; he is poisoned by the lizard and disproved by the paper. Lizard poisons Spock and eats paper; it is crushed by the rock and decapitated by the scissors.[8]"

10/3/2008 1:36:30 AM

Quote :

"Biologist Barry Sinervo from the University of California, Santa Cruz has discovered a [rock-paper-scissors] evolutionary strategy in the mating behaviour of the side-blotched lizard species Uta stansburiana. Males have either orange, blue or yellow throats and each type follows a fixed, heritable mating strategy * Orange-throated males are strongest and do not form strong pair bonds; instead, they fight blue-throated males for their females. Yellow-throated males, however, manage to snatch females away from them for mating. * Blue-throated males are middle-sized and form strong pair bonds. While they are outcompeted by orange-throated males, they can defend against yellow-throated ones. * Yellow-throated males are smallest, and their coloration mimics females. Under this disguise, they can approach orange-throated males but not the stronger-bonding blue-throated specimens and mate while the orange-throats are engaged in fights. This can be summarized as "orange beats blue, blue beats yellow, and yellow beats orange", which is similar to the rules of rock-paper-scissors."

awesome

10/3/2008 1:55:31 AM

lol I love Wikipedia

Quote :

"An example of an unbalanced four-weapon game adds "dynamite" as a trump. Dynamite, expressed as the extended index finger or thumb, always defeats rock, but is defeated by scissors. The paper-dynamite relationship is disputed; using it as a trump generally implies that "dynamite shreds paper," but there are those who claim that the paper would supposedly smother the wick. Because of this dispute (and the potential unfair advantage that would result), organized rock-paper-scissors contests never use dynamite"

10/3/2008 2:01:17 AM

rock, paper, scissors is not based on one object being "greater" than the other

these objects are judged in more than 2 dimensions

10/3/2008 2:36:04 AM

f you in the a, dont wear a c and j on your b's

10/3/2008 6:52:30 AM

whatttt?

10/3/2008 6:53:43 AM