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Re: Synchonizing watches

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From: Paul M. Wexelblat
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 12:18
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In article <1992Sep4.140840.25529@hubcap.clemson.edu>, pds@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk (Patrick Surry) writes:
|> [...]

|> 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.
|> 
|> I think the earlier proof that no solution exists looked right.

AARGH, Never Mind

You are perfectly right

-- 
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

	...Wex
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