arr@tty3b.UUCP (10-7-83"Andy R. 94130) (06/16/84)
I hope you don't think my request trivial but here goes.
I was asked to create a schedule for opponent play in
a league. There were 22 members in the league and they
wanted each player to play every other player once, with
no player playing more than once a week. That meant that
it would be a 21 week schedule with 11 two person games a
week. Since I am a programmer at heart I decided to make
a "quick" program to print the schedule for "N" players.
Well I'm stuck!!! It aint such an easy task. The only
way I could get a working program is to make it totally
a trial-and-error/iterative type job. This takes a while
to run if the "N" is large; especially if I'm using a PC.
I am bound-and-determined to find a better way!!!
I just can't believe something that is so conceptually
simple can be so hard to program.
If anyone out there in NETland can help I will be
forever grateful!!! If I don't find a solution my wife
is going to leave me and I will be sent to a loony bin
mumbling..."But there has got to be a better way...."
From the ever active terminal of
Andy Rolfe
ATT Teletype Corp.
312-982-3202
ihnp4!tty3b!arr
THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY EFFORTS!!!