Subject: Acka: Proposal 4120

Proposal 4120
Ugh
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Due: Wed Mar 17 00:41:37 1999
Status: accepted


Amend Rule 1-2, "Conventions", by changing "mean the mean" to
"mean the unweighted arithmetic mean".

{{[ This refers to the definition of an average.  Somebody thought that
"average" used elsewhere in the rules wasn't clear enough, but the
proposal that added this section to the rule only made it worse, since
the "average" almost exclusively refers to the arithmetic mean, but in rare
cases a weighted average, while the "mean", a more mathematically-oriented
term, may refer to harmonic, geometric, root-mean-square, and other power
means, all of them possibly weighted.  If we're going to bother to define
this, at least do it right. ]}}

Amend Rule 1-2-9, "Colours", by putting the list of colors into
alphabetical order (if it is not already so), then adding the
following colors to the list so that they appear in alphabetical
order:  tan, hazel, khaki, topaz, auburn, bronze, violet, amethyst,
ruby, coral, salmon, cream, ivory.

Amend Rule 1-6-1-1, "True Names", by changing "players" to "player's" in
the second paragraph and in the section labeled "a)".