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| From | Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ |
| Date | Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:10:35 +0000 |
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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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