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To: weave09

OK, my proof is based in logic, not a formula.

4 rounds equals 12 playing partners for each player (3 each round).
You want each to play the other eleven, which means you can only duplicate one playing partner over all 4 rounds.
All told, 12 players must have exactly 1 duplicate each, spread over 4 rounds.

However, you can't even have two rounds of totally unique foursomes (in fact, at least half of the players must repeat a playing partner from the previous day).

Proof:
there are 3 groups each day - A, B, C
players 1,2,3,4 play in group A first day
where will they play day 2?
put 1 in A, 2 in B, 3 in C ... player 4 must go into a group with someone he played the previous round with.

Go ahead and try to design 2 totally unique rounds.
btw, you could make this work with 16 players, I think.

What this means is there are at least 6 duplicates each round after the first, for a minmum of 18 duplicates. Since your premise only allows for 12 duplicates, you can't win.

I'll take payment in beer ...


36 posted on 08/11/2004 1:58:11 PM PDT by fnord (Being humble doesn't mean thinking less of yourself. It means thinking more of others.)
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To: fnord
Which direction was train a going when it crashes into train b on a parallel track and how does the time warp factor equate with the square root of the angle of the obtuse triangle's hypotneuse?

Show your work.

37 posted on 08/11/2004 2:46:16 PM PDT by Kate of Spice Island ('Effin the ineffible since '91." FirstIAmAUSSoldier and I approve of this message...)
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