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[puddingcat]

Via ladytabitha, for far too many people I know:


Rock scissors paper for geeks :)

Also, this smaller version.

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Bwaaaahahahahahahaha sponge

[shermarama]

Woooooo! That's amazing!!!

(I can't imagine ever learning and playing it, like, but as an idea...)

[zenmeisterin.livejournal.com]

Water looks like Cthulhu!

[davidlurie.livejournal.com]

In graph theory, this is called a "tournament (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tournament.html)", or a "complete oriented graph".

Awesome.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Looks like the results of a really fucked up Spirograph.

(Visiting via confutatis.)

[pixeldrift.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's like a really complicated color wheel (http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/images/encyc_colorwheel.gif). Primary, secondary, tertiary, analagous, etc etc

At first glance it reminded me of the old handshake problem...

"A baseball team had just won the championship game and the players wanted to congratulate each other. They began shaking hands, but each player only shook hands with every other player just once. There are, of course, only 9 players on a baseball team. How many times did the players shake hands?"

[dragonmamma.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Interesting. Looks like a glass trapezoidal pyramid , doesnt it. Not sure how you would actually play it tho. Just another thing to make ones bwain hurt.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just 8? Or am I missing something really basic?

That's like the "how many socks" problem - dressing in the dark, I have socks of 5 different colours in the drawer, how many do I have to pull out before I can be sure of having a pair?

[pixeldrift.livejournal.com]

I think the baseball question meant to ask how many handshakes were exchanged in total without shaking someone's hand twice.

If there are 9 people, someone can only shake with 8 other people because who shakes hands with themselves? Then that person would be eliminated from everyone elses shake count because they have already shaken hands with him. And so on... 8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1=36