From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-08-18T05:20:53+09:00
Subject: Re: can i do this in ruby? a simulation process

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM,  <brabuhr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Andrew Wagner <wagner.andrew@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, I did this, for fun, and consistently got an average of around 833
>> seconds on average for 100000 trials. Anyone else give this a shot? I'm
>> curious to see whether different implementations give different results. The
>> standard deviation seems to be pretty high.
>
> 58,387 trials
>
> Number of vehicles used
>  min 16,  max 77,  avg 38.3,  stdev 7.9
>
> Elapsed time (seconds)
>  min 533,  max 2550,  avg 1273.1,  stdev 258.1

Two alternate implementations:

5,689 trials

Vehicles
  min, max, avg, stdev: 16, 77, 38.4, 8.0

Time
  min, max, avg, stdev: 348, 1637, 808.9, 169.2

and:

19,121 trials

Vehicles
  min, max, avg, stdev: 14, 80, 38.4, 8.0

Time
  min, max, avg, stdev: 318, 1714, 807.9, 168.3