Results to Numbers Contest NUM4
These are the CORRECTED results to Numbers Contest NUM4.
Hi. Gerrit de Blaauw pointed out that there was a mistake in the
scoring of the last contest. A single "6 " in question F was read
by the scoring program differently from all the other "6"'s. Gerrit's
score is the only one substantially affected by this, as his score on F
was was incorrectly recorded as 6, rather than 6/24=0.25, and he
moves from 1st place to 3rd place. Sorry, Gerrit! I am very
grateful for his honesty, and carefulness in checking over the
scores. Here are the top three scores:
Name A B C D E F G H I J Score
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1.Tricia Crowder 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 1 1 1.020e-03
2.Josh 1 1 4 3 3 6 8 3 2 6 3.462e-04
3.Gerrit de Blaauw 1 2 8 3 9 6 9 5 3 4 9.529e-05
First place now goes to Tricia Crowder, whose simple strategy
of picking the smallest number on every question is now even more
impressive.
Also, last time said that 10 entrants had simply picked the highest
number on every question. In fact, only 8 did (they tied for 17th
through 24th place).
The full scores are listed below. Gerrit's score was the only one to
undergo a major revision -- other minor shifts occured because the 23
people who scored 6/23 on question F should have scored 6/24.
This contest was so easy to score, so I'm quite embarassed to have
made a mistake, especially one that changed the winner. Oh well.
I'm pretty busy now, so it will probably be some time before I come
out with a new contest.
Momo
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Here are all the entries and their scores
Name A B C D E F G H I J Score
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1.Tricia Crowder 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 1 1 1.020e-03
2.Josh 1 1 4 3 3 6 8 3 2 6 3.462e-04
3.Gerrit de Blaauw 1 2 8 3 9 6 9 5 3 4 9.529e-05
4.Karl Lehman 1 2 8 3 9 6 8 7 3 6 7.500e-05
5.Eytan Zweig 2 2 8 3 9 6 8 5 4 7 4.856e-05
6.Joseph Marriott 2 4 2 3 9 6 8 7 3 9 2.741e-05
7.Andy Jakcsy 2 2 4 3 9 6 8 5 4 7 2.615e-05
8.Umesh Nair 2 4 4 1 9 1 9 3 4 7 2.075e-05
9.Andrew Feist 2 2 2 3 3 1 9 5 3 5 2.036e-05
10.Paul Filseth 2 4 4 1 3 6 8 1 4 8 1.515e-05
11.Angus Walker 1 2 4 1 3 1 8 5 4 8 1.450e-05
12.Rhodent 2 4 4 1 3 6 9 3 3 6 1.401e-05
13.Tom Salinsky 2 2 8 3 9 6 9 5 2 9 1.269e-05
14.Alpha Bootes 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 8 1.167e-05
15.Amit Agarwal 2 4 4 3 9 6 9 5 4 6 7.429e-06
16.Nis Jorgensen 2 2 8 1 9 1 9 7 3 6 7.372e-06
17.Warren Sergent 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.Dave Gates 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.Michael Crowder 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.David Hill 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.Paul Guertin 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.Geoff Roe 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.Steven Howard 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
==.Michael Shreeve 2 4 8 3 9 6 9 7 5 9 7.072e-06
25.Zeljko Vrba 2 4 4 3 3 6 9 7 5 8 4.191e-06
26.Ross Goldberg 2 4 4 1 9 1 9 5 5 8 3.999e-06
27.Liisa Sarakontu 2 2 2 3 3 6 9 7 5 9 3.896e-06
28.Neil Sunderland 2 2 4 3 3 6 9 5 4 8 3.341e-06
==.Barbara 2 2 4 3 3 6 9 5 4 8 3.341e-06
30.PaulV 2 2 4 3 9 6 9 5 4 9 3.036e-06
31.Jonathan Rivet 2 4 4 3 3 1 9 7 5 9 1.451e-06
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A: {1,2}
5 picked 1 to score 0.2
26 picked 2 to score 0.0769231
B: {1,2,4}
2 picked 1 to score 0.5
12 picked 2 to score 0.166667
17 picked 4 to score 0.235294
C: {1,2,4,8}
1 picked 1 to score 1
3 picked 2 to score 0.666667
13 picked 4 to score 0.307692
14 picked 8 to score 0.571429
D: {1,3}
7 picked 1 to score 0.142857
24 picked 3 to score 0.125
E: {1,3,9}
1 picked 1 to score 1
10 picked 3 to score 0.3
20 picked 9 to score 0.45
F: {1,6}
7 picked 1 to score 0.142857
24 picked 6 to score 0.25
G: {8,9}
8 picked 8 to score 1
23 picked 9 to score 0.391304
H: {1,3,5,7}
2 picked 1 to score 0.5
3 picked 3 to score 1
11 picked 5 to score 0.454545
15 picked 7 to score 0.466667
I: {1,2,3,4,5}
1 picked 1 to score 1
2 picked 2 to score 1
6 picked 3 to score 0.5
9 picked 4 to score 0.444444
13 picked 5 to score 0.384615
J: {1,4,5,6,7,8,9}
1 picked 1 to score 1
1 picked 4 to score 4
1 picked 5 to score 5
5 picked 6 to score 1.2
3 picked 7 to score 2.33333
7 picked 8 to score 1.14286
13 picked 9 to score 0.692308