hi james, can you put me in as a loser? i'd like to be part of it, i've enjoyed your website over time. maybe at the bottom, outside the count?
best wishes, bjørn On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:39 PM James Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > RF (here my abbreviation for "random function") holds a random numeric > value, currently fixed at 2020. If it wasn't fixed I'd use the alternative > suggested in the comment, being the value of nanoseconds from system time. > It's fixed because there are only three entrants, and two of them agree the > third should win. count holds the number of entrants. The % symbol means > modulus. A modulus calculation is a way of taking a big number and > wrapping it around a small number until it's no larger than the small > number. RF % count + 1 therefor provides the index of the winner in the > list of names. > > > On 22/09/2020 08:58, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Ha hah! Thanks for the endorsement Alan; ) > But I'm pretty sure that's not how it should work. > James I don't understand the logic of the selection. How's it work? > > :) > R > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:59 AM Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Surely Ruth all the time and forever! >> >> Best, Alan >> >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, James Morris wrote: >> >> > winner selecting bash script attached. modifications welcome. winner >> > currently fixed. >> > >> > >> >> web http://www.alansondheim.org/index.html cell 347-383-8552 >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/xn.txt >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > -- > Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts > Lab > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > > *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender > balanced. > > **sending thanks > <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> > in > advance > > *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through > exhibitions, > labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. > furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> > > *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 > technologies research hub > > for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. > > decal.is <http://www.decal.is> > > Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee > > Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. > > Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London, > EC1A 9ET. > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > [email protected]https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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