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To: FedWatcher who wrote (8956)	3/23/2001 12:00:59 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (1) of 197035

Re : simultaneous demands on a system -- I do not have an electrical engineering answer. However, I have taken more than one course on probability and statistics. And ... can tell you that the scenario you described is exceedingly unlikely ! Let me give you a real world example : When I was at business school, people signing up for on-campus job interviews would specify (via bidding on the school's computer system) their 1st choice and 2nd choice (and maybe 3rd choice also) (I cannot remember ...) for the time slot of the interview. I distinctly remember a session that was held with one of the career placement office people, where the obvious question was asked (by a first-year student) : Doesn't the situation come up frequently where a lot of people all want the same time slots, and the computer software is hopeless for assigning people throughout the entire day ? The answer was : That situation had not come up EVER ! Random people scheduling random things tend to make things end up nice and ... RANDOM. Jon.

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