populartajo wrote:semioldguy wrote:Tajo... can you please answer my question:
What made you think that my questions revealed too much information but that your question to me did not when they revealed the same information?
Do you understand the difference betwwen relative values and absolute values?
In numeric ways:
An answer of this type: a+b=30 means scum will never know exactly which is the value of "a" and "b". That is the case of questions like: of these two items which has the highest cost and by how.
An answer of this type a=20, means scum will know the value of "a" and ALL the values related to a, using only simple math. That is the case of questions like: give me the cost of the item bomb-omb.
God, whats wrong with you?
This is wrong. Math helps a lot here.
Let's start by giving each of the items a different unknown variable as their cost.
Green Shell = x
Bob-Omb = y
Red Shell = a
Poison Shroom = b
Your first question was asking the difference between the Green and red Shells. It was answered red cost more by two.
Green Shell = x
Bob-Omb = y
Red Shell = x +2
Poison Shroom = b
Next question was between the Green Shall and the Poison Shroom. Shroom was answered as costing more by four.
Green Shell = x
Bob-Omb = y
Red Shell = x +2
Poison Shroom = x + 4
Your next question asked between the green Shell and the Bob-omb.
Green Shell = x
Bob-Omb = x +1
Red Shell = x +2
Poison Shroom = x + 4
Now you can put a list together of increasing costs based on your three questions. Any question about added totals now can deduce the actual costs of the items. For example If I asked what the sum of the red and green shells were you could take that answer and set up the following equation. Let's assume that the sum of the two items is 100 for this example.
We get this: x + (x + 2) = 100
Which goes to: 2x + 2 = 100
Then 2x = 98
And finally x = 49
Once you establish every item's costs in relation to one another, you prevent yourself from asking a bunch of other questions about relative values and such.
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You never said that my second question revealed too much information, you said
questions
, which is plural. If anything... the answer to your question of me revealed MORE than my question asking for a list. If the bob-omb was the most or least expensive item, then you could have still asked what it's total was in relation to another item, netting an extra question. That is why you have to leave the most or least expensive item for last in comparison, which you didn't do. For example if the cost-increasing list put the bob-omb at the highest or lowest cost, it could be ANY number higher or lower. The fact that it was in the middle meant that it's value in relation to the other items could be defined by it's placement alone, since none of the items were separated by more than two coins.
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