Quick Ways to the Top: A Team Game Illustrating Steepest Ascent Techniques

D. J. Farlie and Joan Keen

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 1967, vol. 16, issue 1, 75-80

Abstract: Rules are given for a game to be played between two teams. The object of the game is to determine the “top” of the opponent's unknown contour map in the fewest moves and the game is designed to illustrate the technique of steepest ascent.

Date: 1967
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