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- From: mailrus!samsung!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!wex@uunet.UU.NET (Paul M. Wexelblat)
- Subject: Re: Synchonizing watches
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.121641.4995@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> <1992Sep3.201917.25468@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep4.140840.25529@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:19:06 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- In article <1992Sep4.140840.25529@hubcap.clemson.edu>, pds@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk (Patrick Surry) writes:
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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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- AARGH, Never Mind
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- You are perfectly right
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- You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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- ...Wex
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