Actually I have long thought that the situation with boxing in the 70's was like a Condorcet cycle (or like the rock-paper-scissors game), where Frazier defeated Ali, who defeated Foreman, who defeated Frazier.
Bart Alex Small wrote: > > My description of boxing probably shows my ignorance: > > > Condorcet is more like boxing, where a person only keeps the title by > > being undefeated (cycles are deadlocks where NO person is undefeated). > > Let's just say that the existence of cycles is why my analogy is > imperfect, but most analogies are somewhat imperfect anyway. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
