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Originally Posted by JPC75
A distant cousin to football is a good game called Rugby which has not been too corrupted by the refs. The rule book, called the laws of the game, has 12rules.
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Yeah, and each rule broken into sections, paragraphs, etc., whoopee. Until a few years ago it was a lot more rules than that, they just reorganized them. Rugby's been thru that before, BTW, and so have American & Canadian football. They get up to 40-some rules and then they decide to re-edit them into 10 or 13, so what? The book's just as long once they interpolate all the rulings.
There are ways of doing this semi-automatically. You use a compression algorithm to search for repeated strings, and then instead of computer code to represent them, you use judgement to decide whether it's reasonable to define a term that will work for all of those occurrences.
Robert