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Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++

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On 01 Feb 2016, Paul wrote:

> On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 12:04:08 PM UTC, Mark Carroll wrote:
>> On 01 Feb 2016, Paul wrote:
>> 
>> > The post below was also sent to comp.lang.c++ but it's been more than
>> > half a day, and I haven't got any responses so I'd like to post it to
>> > this group.
>> 
>> That's not long to wait!
>> 
> Perhaps not. Let p be the time of posting. Let n be the least waiting time
> which has the property that, if no helpful responses are received by time n,
> the probability of (any helpful responses being received by time (p + 1 week)
> < 0.5. What is your estimate of n? I was thinking n may well be about half a
> day.

It's worth waiting at least a day: people have different daily routines
that typically don't involve reading news all day, can need time to mull
over a problem while doing something else, and are from different time
zones around the world.

-- Mark

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Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Paul <pepstein5@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 03:38 -0800
  Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-02-01 12:04 +0000
    Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Paul <pepstein5@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 05:52 -0800
      Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-02-01 15:10 +0000
  Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2016-02-01 14:15 -0800
  Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-01 23:00 +0000
  Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-01 23:24 +0000

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