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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/29/2014 10:09 AM, Jonathan Morton
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<p dir="ltr">On 28 May 2014 20:31, "David Collier-Brown" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:davec-b@rogers.com">davec-b@rogers.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> A niggle: people working in queuing theory* make the
simplifying<br>
> assumption that queues don't drop. When describing the real
world, they<br>
> talk of "defections", the scenario where a human arrives at
the tail of<br>
> the queue and "defects", either to another queue or to the
exit door of<br>
> the store!</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think my description of the black box is still
valid: a "defection" must imply a second output from the box,
otherwise it will appear as either a reordering (preserving the
property) or a discard.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> - Jonathan Morton</p>
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Yes, I entirely agree: your black box is slightly larger than the
usual queuing box... which make your box think "outside the box"
(;-))<br>
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--dave<br>
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System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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