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- From: Patrick Surry <pds@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Synchonizing watches
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.140840.25529@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
- References: <1992Sep3.123226.14205@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep3.172657.10929@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep3.201917.25468@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:49:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.201917.25468@hubcap.clemson.edu>, mailrus!samsung!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!wex@uunet.UU.NET (Paul M. Wexelblat) writes:
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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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- I don't think so. A says "BONG" at t=0. At t=AB, B hears "BONG" and
- starts counting, saying "zero" at t=AB, "one" at t=AB+1, ...
- A will hear "zero" at time AB+BA - there is no way for A to know
- what number B has reached because A won't hear it for another BA seconds.
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- I think the earlier proof that no solution exists looked right.
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- Patrick
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