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Old 28th Jun 2005, 20:39
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Onan the Clumsy

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If there's a tie for 11th place, is there a 12th place or just a jump to 13th? That's only important because if there wasn't a 12th place, everyone would be able to move up one...
The accepted policy is that if there is a tie for nth place, then (n+1)th place is skipped and the next highest sits in (n+2)th place.

Furthermore, if there are m people typing for nth place, then places (n+1), (n+2)...(n+m-1) are skipped and the next highest sits in (n+m)th place.


So to answer your question: In this case, there was a tie between two people for 11th place, so the next person sat in 13th place, until the demise of one of the two tied people at which point the 13th place person rises to 12th place, 14th to 13th etc and you get to rejoice in being one rung nearer the top - temporarily at least.


This Adaptive Sequencing is different from the Linear Sequencing involved in say being born, or more appropriately here at least, dying. Namely that in Adaptive Sequencing, your position varies along a determinate region of the full spectrum, (you are only likely to become so rich or so poor for instance), whereas in Linear Sequencing, your position varies, possibly in both directions in relation to the spectrun limits, but ultimately towards and to the spectrum limits.

In layman's terms, you get sick, you recover, but sooner or later you''re the next person to die.
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