A c k a n o m i c C y c l o p e d i a o f K n o w l e d g e Vol. 1, Issue 1. March 2, 1998 In this issue: - - Find a GAMES T-Shirt! - - Treasure Statistics - - $500 in real treasure Find a GAMES T-Shirt! - --------------------- Advertisement, from /dev/joe Treasure 181, buried by /dev/joe in August, was never found while the hidden contest then going on was active. The April 1998 issue of GAMES, as always for April issues, contains a hidden contest. I have found this contest, so it shouldn't be too tough for some of you out there. Treasure Statistics - ------------------- (Compiled from The Gingham Wearer's treasure pages by our statistician, /dev/joe) Found treasures, by player who found them: /dev/joe (34) 101 103 107 109 110 112 113 114 116 120 127 138 139 143 145 148 149 158 167 183 189 190 190(another one with the same number?) (179, Guy Fawkes's sequence, should also be listed here) Alfvaen (11) 106 118 141 142 150 151 153 173 176 184 188 Guy Fawkes (7) 105 111 140 156 160 161 162 breadbox (7) 115 119 132 136 146 180 182 two-star (5) 144 168 172 185 186 Habeous Corpus/Voting Gnome (3) 102 108 177 Malenkai (3) 124 130 134 Mohammed (3) 126 159 174 fnord (2) 123 125 Narf (1) 131 snowgod/Mr. Lunatic Fringe (1) 157 Bascule (1) 163 Null treasures (entire contents of treasure destroyed and/or transferred out of the treasure by whatever means): 154 171 Lost treasures (buried by players who are gone, with no active map custodian -- possibly still findable, if a player returns to the game), listed by player who buried them: snowgod/Mr. Lunatic Fringe 104 165 Jammer 117 129 Malenkai 122 135 166 194 fnord 128 Ackers 133 Habeous Corpus 147 Still extant treasures, listed by who buried them: Red Barn 121 152 191 Calvin N Hobbes 135 Alfvaen 155 169 197 200 two-star 170 178 193 Karma 175 /dev/joe 181 Rex Mundi 189 The Gingham Wearer 195 K2 196 Slakko 198 Treasure hunters, let's find those treasures! $500 in real treasure - --------------------- Submitted by contributing editor /dev/joe Douglas Zare at Caltech is running an Internet mathematics contest, and offering US$500 as first prize. This is actually the third such contest he has run, but I missed the earlier two. As he writes on his web page, the contest is open to "anyone without a degree in mathematics, computer science, or a natural science at the Bachelor's (4 year) level or higher ... Further, those who do have such a degree but are under 21 years of age as of January 1, 1998 are eligible to compete." Sorry to those of you who this eliminates; I'm sure we have a few such people here. In the newsgroup where I read about this contest, one reader responded (paraphrased) "I don't know if I should take this [referring to the restriction quoted above] as a slight or an opportunity to us engineers." I thought more or less the same thing myself. Zare responded that he didn't think many engineers had enough background to have an unfair advantage. In any case, the full rules for the contest and a link to the problems can be found at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~zare/contest.html . I am giving it my best shot; so far, I've gotten way more of the problems solved than I ever expected to.