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| Adina and I were in the Engineering Library at Queen's, looking at bound journals, when we found Scientific American. We took the oldest book off the shelf (1879!), and opened it to a random page. On that page, we found this article: (URL) libraries (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) WOW! That would have been fun to see! The article doesn't mention if it actually WON any games though... ROSCO (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) HUH? second paragraph, second line: "...where it has played a large number of games without losing a single one." must be all that down under summer heat eh? Ross? :) Chris There's no 'I' in 'team'. There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) But in Tic Tac Toe, a lot of games actually end up as *ties*. Must be all those toilet fumes, eh Chris? :) Iain (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Um... { "not losing" == "winning" } == FALSE but { "not losing" & "not drawing" == "winning" } == TRUE So Rosco's question is legit, although hair splitting, it's possible to get a draw in Checkers (both sides have a single king, for example) (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Um, AND tic tac toe! I was just using checkers as an example, honest. (...) This is also true in my view of tic tac toe but not as relatively hard. (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) OH!! OK, I get it now. see, when i read this (first thing in the AM, before my cup-o-joe) I took that line to be some messed up ye oldee english for always win. but in retrospect, i guess it could also read as tie. I withdraw the heat (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I wonder when the name changed to tic-tac-to? Kevin (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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