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- From: mailrus!samsung!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!wex@uunet.UU.NET (Paul M. Wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Synchonizing watches
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.201917.25468@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Apparently-To: ulowell!uunet!comp-parallel
- Originator: wex@bigmax.ulowell.edu
- Sender: mailrus!samsung!ulowell!usenet@uunet.UU.NET (News manager - ulowell)
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- Organization: Univ. of Lowell CS Dept.
- References: <1992Sep3.123226.14205@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep3.172657.10929@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:16:10 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- In article <1992Sep3.172657.10929@hubcap.clemson.edu>, anik@crhc.uiuc.edu (Sadun Anik) writes:
- [ by now, the problem is in many messages....steve]
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- All seem to agree that it is trivial for them to to compute AB+BA;
- I think we'll all agree that they just need to compute AB or BA to allow
- them get "pretty close".
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- OK A --->B: "I'm going to say "BONG" as soon as my second hand
- reaches the 12, when you hear the "BONG", start counting seconds
- on your watch out loud.
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- A says "BONG" and times AB+BA seconds; at the end of that time the number
- B has reached is the BA delay
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- bingo! (leaders 3/4 out while the trailers any-hand wheel through)
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-
- --
- You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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- ...Wex
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