On Apr 22, 11:56 pm, Kenneth Sloan wrote:

The mathematician and the engineer consider Zeno's Paradox.

The mathematician knows that it can't be done.

The engineer knows that he'll get close enough.


The real problem with your suggested solution is
that lots of people would whine when their favorite
did not end up winning the match.

Suppose the favorite is named Gerry Kaspero,
and his disliked opponent we shall call Anna-Toley
Karnov. Now, if GK were to win the very first game
and then, after a long string of draws, AK were to
win two blitz games in a row, the whiners would
moan that it wasn't "fair" to weight such games
equally. But if AK had won the early game and
GK then won a couple of blitz games, it would be
heralded as a great success by the pundits and
by the press, who would attribute the result to
GK's "dynamic" play.

So then, what about simply hot-saucing the two
players if they continue to draw one another?


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