Average Profits

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Average Profits

The graphs for the profits, with and without DF exploration are very different. What is interesting is that without DF exploration, the profits decrease gradually to zero, while with DF exploration, the profits are more maintained and even increase. However, with DF exploration, the profits do not increase enough to maintain DF pricebots in the population.

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Figure 10. Average generation profits without DF exploration

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Figure 11. Average generation profits with DF exploration

Again the results of changing proportions of the number of GT and DF pricebots with successive generations follows directly from the profit graph. While the DF profits may be increasing and are sometimes above the GT profits, most of the time the DF make less profit than the gt, ultimately leading to the demise of the DF pricebot population.

Victoria Manfredi
2001-08-02