Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark Carroll Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: Designing a suite of algorithms in C++ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:10:35 +0000 Organization: none Lines: 23 Message-ID: <87vb688o0k.fsf@ixod.org> References: <2df6fc12-e6c9-4f5b-bdb7-21e35a57edbb@googlegroups.com> <871t8w1vt6.fsf@ixod.org> <5a3e23a7-2e0b-44ca-82e1-41a9ecfdbfd4@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1b3e5cba9e4d07a53741e6f3d1717925"; logging-data="6337"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186zKl+wT/UrGUd6IAT8Tio" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TFPEwf0w3X/dDcYPkTWMOlt/k/s= sha1:qm+gy+5ntrZs7c6k6gJWdyfeins= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:6252 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