3) You are scanning in business cards with your CardScan300. It takes five seconds to scan each business card. Each time you save the database, it takes 20 seconds (because you need to create a new database -- it's confusing; just believe me). About every 800th card, the CardScan300 locks up, and you (a) lose all your unsaved work up to that point and (b) have to spend two minutes restarting the computer and the program. You have 1000 cards to scan. To minimize your expected time, how many times should you save your work, and when? (Remember that you have to save your work at the end, too.) [3 points]
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
