Birthday lunch rsvps

[alias_sqbr]

Hello! Have just posted to Facebook and that's a more convenient way of counting, but anyone who's not on that please let me know if you're coming.

Time: 12 noon Saturday 22nd November
Place: Jetties Restaurant Hillaries Boat Harbour
Booking under Sophie *my married name*

I SUCK at deciding this sort of thing so cast the net pretty wide, given how absent minded I am I probably still missed people (but no complaining if I missed you because you currently live in England or Canberra etc :P)

I actually don't want TOO many people coming since I'm not sure how large a booking they'll take(*), but I've had too many bad experiences of NOONE coming to stuff I organise to just invite the actual number I want.

(*)In retrospect, 62 was maybe a few too many...I said I suck! Man, I hate organising things.

Comments

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

Let X={person in people | RSVP(person)>0}
the_riviera_kid in X

Yes it has been a long and fruitless day, why do you ask?

[alias_sqbr]

I like how the number of RSVPs I might receive from any given person is unbounded and not neccesarily and integer :)

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

Whilst I suspected that it was likely that RSVP(person) would be restricted to {-1,0,1} (corresponding of course to a negative RSVP, no RSVP and a positive RSVP respectively), it seemed more robust to assume you only really cared about its polarity.
Plus this way the floor is still open for someone to RSVP +-(sqrt(5)-1)/2 times.

[alias_sqbr]

Plus this way the floor is still open for someone to RSVP +-(sqrt(5)-1)/2 times.

I think that sort if rsvp would average out to zero, but yes :)

[the-riviera-kid.livejournal.com]

My intention was that they would either reply in the negative phi times, or in the positive phi times rather than both, but once again it wouldn't do to limit the system by my naive assumptions.

[alias_sqbr]

Indeed it would not :)