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- From: Patrick Surry <pds@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Synchonizing watches
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.133710.29604@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
- References: <1992Sep3.123226.14205@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep4.174143.13747@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 17:07:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep4.174143.13747@hubcap.clemson.edu>, mln@sunkj.larc.nasa.gov (Michael L Nelson) writes:
- > I must be missing something here, because this looks quite simple.
- >
- > -A & B already know this procedure.
- >
- > A: says "Bing" to B
- > B responds with "Bing" to A
- >
- > this is ABBA time - the total delay
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- Yup.
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- > A:
- > 1. says "Bong"
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- at time T say, message arrives at B at T+AB
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- > 2. waits, say N minutes (N > ABBA)
- > 3. says "Bong" again
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- at time T+N say, message arrives at B at T+N+AB
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- > B already knows what N is, and can then determine
- > What AB is (Bong2 - Bong1 - N)
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- No - he just receives two messages N minutes apart:
- (Bong2-Bong1-N) = T+N+AB-(T+AB)-N = 0, not AB
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- > (un)synchronized ;-)
-
- Patrick
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