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Post by Evan on Sept 13, 2013 15:51:01 GMT -8
To subsidize this trip, I have agreed to transport certain substances. The more elements I can fit on my train, the better. - This is a word game. - To enter, submit a chain of periodic elements/symbols. Send it to me using the Mildville message system, please. - What is a chain? It is simply a list where the last letter of each element is the first letter of the next element. - You may use a mixture of symbols and full element names, but you can only use names/symbols from this list: www.lenntech.com/periodic/name/alphabetic.htm- No element can be used twice in any form. So, if I use "Gold" once, I can't use it again nor can I use its symbol, Au - Your score is simply equal to the number of elements in your chain. - IF TWO PEOPLE GET THE EXACT SAME WINNING SCORE, BOTH SCORES WILL BE THROWN OUT AND THE NEXT HIGHEST SCORE WILL WIN For example, the following chain would net me 5 points: Nitrogen - Nickel - Lr - Radon - Na Good luck! As always the deadline is Monday at 5 PM PST
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Post by True Ingéneurs on Sept 13, 2013 15:59:44 GMT -8
Fancy.
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Post by Stinky Pete on Sept 13, 2013 16:04:53 GMT -8
Alcohol's not an element? That's discrimation!
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Sept 13, 2013 16:19:59 GMT -8
Didn't Amer already write a program to win this thing?
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Post by Paula Romanetti on Sept 13, 2013 16:44:00 GMT -8
See, this challenge just shows you that it's never too late to learn! Who knew Krypton was a real thing and not just the planet where Superman was born? And, it's so nice to know that The Good Samarium in the Bible was rewarded for stopping to help that guy by getting some element named after him! I have a pretty strong feeling that Seaborgium is an important element found in thoroughbred race horses. This should be fun! Oh, I'm so proud to be an Americium! Obviously, I did not excel at science and math.
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Post by Evan on Sept 13, 2013 16:53:11 GMT -8
Didn't Amer already write a program to win this thing? That's why I put in the rule that if two people tie then neither gets it. If two people write a program to maximize their score, they eliminate each other.
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Post by Ron Wednesday on Sept 13, 2013 17:17:40 GMT -8
I could also write an algorithm and post the results so we all tie. Then we'll have a big tie with who gets it and various levels of people taking ones away. This leads to a problem more like. . .. Submit a number 1-100. The winner has the most without ties.
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Post by Farrell on Sept 13, 2013 17:52:40 GMT -8
Didn't Amer already write a program to win this thing? That's why I put in the rule that if two people tie then neither gets it. If two people write a program to maximize their score, they eliminate each other. Is there anyone else besides Amer that is capable of writing said program?
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Post by Amer on Sept 13, 2013 18:03:03 GMT -8
It's actually not that easy to write this program. Each element has two pairs of first-and-last-letter, so you have an immense number of possibilities to test.
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Post by Stinky Pete on Sept 14, 2013 10:06:27 GMT -8
It's just finding a Hamiltonian path in a directed graph, jeez!
Er, I mean, what the fuck is a barium and can I drink at one?
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Post by Neutrino Esquire on Sept 14, 2013 13:15:14 GMT -8
It's just finding a Hamiltonian path in a directed graph, jeez! Yeah, too bad finding that path is NP-complete.
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Post by Peppperettte Paige on Sept 14, 2013 14:16:22 GMT -8
NP=Neptunium...
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Post by Peppperettte Paige on Sept 14, 2013 14:44:30 GMT -8
It's just finding a Hamiltonian path in a directed graph, jeez! Er, I mean, what the fuck is a barium and can I drink at one? You can drink Barium at 1, 2, or its always drinky time in Mildville...shall I pour?
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Post by Amer on Sept 14, 2013 21:06:54 GMT -8
I've had to drink barium. It's pretty bad.
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Post by Peppperettte Paige on Sept 15, 2013 7:37:42 GMT -8
That it is...try spiking it next time.
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Post by Stinky Pete on Sept 15, 2013 10:57:16 GMT -8
It's actually FNP, which I'm pretty sure stands for Fuckit, Nomming Popov
Traveling Salesman is for a Hamiltonian cycle of minimum cost
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Post by djhopps on Sept 15, 2013 13:23:26 GMT -8
CHEMISTRY HUMOR
What do you do to a dead man?
You Barium.
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Post by Annie McClarabow on Sept 15, 2013 16:06:41 GMT -8
Barium gets all the jokes. No funny for tin? Or argon?
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Post by Neutrino Esquire on Sept 15, 2013 17:40:12 GMT -8
Don't worry, once all the Barium jokes argon, we can make fun of the other elements!
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Post by Annie McClarabow on Sept 15, 2013 20:58:26 GMT -8
Don't worry, once all the Barium jokes argon, we can make fun of the other elements! Oh! There we go!
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