From: Jean-Julien Fleck <jeanjulien.fleck@...>
Date: 2010-08-17T22:33:21+09:00
Subject: Re: can i do this in ruby? a simulation process

> You bring up an interesting point about going
> from B -> A. In my simulation, I only considered vehicles going in one
> direction. Seems like the specification is unclear about whether they are
> leaving every 5-35 seconds from both cities or just one.

Specifications are clear, at least to me:

"A vehicle leaves the first city every 5-35sec. [...] How long does it
take for 500 people to arrive in the second city."

> Though if they're
> going from both directions, there's certainly no guarantee that you will
> ever move a total of 500 from one to the other.

Then the problem is turning into a (sort of) random walk: it's getting
far more complicated (but far more interesting ?)

Cheers,


-- 
JJ Fleck
PCSI1 Lycée Kléber