Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battleship (game)/Combinatorics


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The result was   delete. WP:NOT. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:45, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Battleship (game)/Combinatorics
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Disputed prod. As the author has stated on the talk page 'I intended this page not as an article on its own but as supplement...' This is not so much a demonstration of a mathematical proof as an exhaustive listing of the various iterations one can put the different pieces in. Of no encyclopaedic value, a link to the programme that calculates this table could be included in the external links of the Battleship (game) page. Benea (talk) 13:18, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 20:48, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't think that everyone is able to compile and run this program. I don't know how portable it is and the computation needs a quarter hour, not everyone may have the patience. Since people asked for the raw numbers on the web, I thought it would be a good idea to place the numbers where they can be found easily. For the motivating questions see http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/58769/how-many-ways-can-we-place-these-ships-on-this-board, http://mathoverflow.net/questions/8374/battleship-permutations . HenningThielemann (talk) 20:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Btw. if you don't like the page, how about moving it to my user name space instead of deleting it? HenningThielemann (talk) 20:58, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete' - Not a useful article, and the material is similar in essence to a bunch of stats. -- Whpq (talk) 21:42, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
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