1-6. Time out.—Chronos
Adminned at 09 Sep 2006 14:26:52 UTC
Add a new dynastic ruled called “Diversity” that says the following
If at any time, the Standard Deviation the set {# Musicians with Harmony Dissonant; # Musicians with Harmony Consonant; # Musicians with no Harmony} is greater than or equal to two, then the tempo of every Muscian is set to null and cannot be changed until the Standard Deviation of the Harmonys is again less than two.
*removes accidental redundancy*
It is the root-mean-square of the distances from the mean; it measures the statistical dispersion (i.e., how spread out) of a set of data:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
Unless this is done automatically, it would probably be better if the conductor (or somebody) “may” do it, instead of must. This could be a hassle to keep track of.
I have no idea how the code behind the GNDT works, but if its just PHP or something like that, it wouldn’t be that hard to code a check to find the S.D. of the Harmonys.
The mean is just the number of players divided by three, though.. also, it seems kind of bizarre to apply stdev to a data set consisting of three values.
Why not say something simpler like “if any style or lack thereof dominates [is more than a certain % of players], all players with that style [have an incentive to switch to something else…]”?
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