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Article #877Re: Desperate situation
From: William B Dwinnell
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:57
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:57
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Yes, a quick and dirty Monte Carlo (actually it was a Las Vegas simulation- they're not the same, you know!) simlation has borne out my original numbers. You can expect to die some time arounfd the 3rd or 4th try. The curve vaguely resembles a log curve. I'm sure there's a way to get an exact figure through clxxx calculus, I believe using a definite integral and dividing to get an average is right, byxx but I always hated integration- differentiation is so much easier!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!pitt.edu!wbdst From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) Newsgroups: sci.math.stat Subject: Re: Desperate situation Message-ID: <2568@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 19:57:09 GMT References: <1993Jan26.183234.20186@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 8