Bannalia: trivial notes on themes diverse
Sunday, October 28, 2007
A little operations research into TV programming: simulation and remarks
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I wrote a little C++ program implementing the TV scheduling algorithm we devised a few entries ago and used it to do several calculations ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
All the King's philosophers: part I
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In one of the rare occasions when the mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī travelled abroad from his homeland, the caravan he was jo...
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Lane inversion
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I often observe the following when a highway with two lanes per direction approaches congestion: under light traffic conditions, most vehicl...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
A little operations research into TV programming: analytical solution
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We derive an analytical solution to the optimum TV scheduling (OTVS) problem posed at a prior entry . In the rest we assume a i , c i > ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Erasmus' slippages in math and logic
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In Erasmus' satirical essay The Praise of Folly , Goddess Folly exposes in a jokingly manner how the entire humankind is subject to her ...
Friday, October 12, 2007
A little operations research into TV programming
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Consider the following idealized model of a TV channel faced with the problem of allocating its resources in the optimum way to achieve as h...
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