[NetBehaviour] jwm-art.death

[Bjørn Magnhildøen]

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 <james at jwm-art.net> 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 <sondheim at panix.com> 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.
>> >
>> >
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