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- Newsgroups: comp.parallel
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!hubcap!fpst
- From: mln@sunkj.larc.nasa.gov (Michael L Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Synchonizing watches
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.174143.13747@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: news@ab00.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News)
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
- References: <1992Sep3.123226.14205@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:09:29 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- I must be missing something here, because this looks quite simple.
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- -A & B already know this procedure.
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- A: says "Bing" to B
- B responds with "Bing" to A
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- this is ABBA time - the total delay
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- A:
- 1. says "Bong"
- 2. waits, say N minutes (N > ABBA)
- 3. says "Bong" again
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- B already knows what N is, and can then determine
- What AB is (Bong2 - Bong1 - N)
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- B tells A what AB time is.
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- A says "Bang" and waits AB time before zeroing
- the watch
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- When B hears "Bang", B immediately zero's the watch
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- synchronized
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- Michael Nelson
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