Do you think you're an expert on boardball? I've got a challenge/game/puzzle for you.
You are looking for a general on a particular board with 10 pages. You cannot view the catalog because exposure to {such condensed cancer,the nonfree javascript,INSERT_REASON_HERE} would taint your purity.
In what order do you look through the pages to minimize the amount of pages you need to look through before finding the general you were looking for?
Unacceptable:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (you'll miss it when it gets bumped)
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... (USAfags need not apply)
/sp/ - Football
Yea, for the Denver Broncos are Football Now and Forever
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Anonymous
No.3279
Anonymous
No.3285
I'm a scrub who uses the catalog, I don't have this problem.
Anonymous
No.3294
Welp it all depends on the generals popularity and how much time has passed since the last bump I guess.
Other way it would be a shot in the dark to try and guess exactly in which page the general is..
If you skip one page (1,3,5,7..) you have 50% chance of getting the thread looking at only 50% of the pages
Skipping 2 pages (1,4,7..) your chances of finding the thread are too small.
Jumping to random pages just makes it even harder to find the thread.
The right thing to do would be to calculate how much threads where created afther the last bump of the desired thread and also how many older threads where bumped.
With this info you can calculate exactly at which page the thread is in the current time.
Other way it would be a shot in the dark to try and guess exactly in which page the general is..
If you skip one page (1,3,5,7..) you have 50% chance of getting the thread looking at only 50% of the pages
Skipping 2 pages (1,4,7..) your chances of finding the thread are too small.
Jumping to random pages just makes it even harder to find the thread.
The right thing to do would be to calculate how much threads where created afther the last bump of the desired thread and also how many older threads where bumped.
With this info you can calculate exactly at which page the thread is in the current time.
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