jimrandomh comments on Just for fun - let's play a game. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 18 April 2009 01:46:14AM 0 points [-]

We don't know how many people were in the tournament, but we do have a very good proxy: the number of rounds in the Swiss portion. Swiss tournaments are supposed to have between log2(P) and log2(P)+1 rounds, where P is the number of players, so the tournament had between 64 and 128 players.