[blml] Fwd: Decimal HCP ranges.

[John Probst]

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From: "Nigel" <Guthrie at NTLworld.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Fwd: Decimal HCP ranges.


> [Jean-Pierre Rocafort]
> i don't see your "convention" as logical, nor convenient, nor
> intuitive. as a simple soul, i would understand 18.0 to correspond to
> the most "normal" 18 hcp hands. the worst 18 hcp would be worth less
> than 18.0 say 17.5 for the purpose of the normalisation to 1-range,
> and the best 18.5
>
> [nige1]
> Then you prefer Tim and John's variation :)

Well, I do :) even for non-walruses 12-14 means just that.; so 11.8-14 means 
"a few more hands" and 12-13.8 means a few fewer hands. Surely the walrus 
can count in a straight line.?  I agree there's a difference between 12 and 
12.0 in the context 12-14. The first is walrus, the 2nd judgement. The 
latter meaning we discard some 12's and add a similar number of 11's. The 
walrus method suffers from trying to make each number work alone, I think; 
In decimal notation we use the context of the two numbers.

cheers john
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