Re: Great SWT Program

In article <ae6b6863-560a-4814-99c3-773d72dbd473@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<twerpinator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 2, 3:24 pm, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:

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For one typist, 2N may take 2
seconds and N take 1; for another, maybe 2N takes 1 second and N takes
1/2 a second.

Not if that typist used an efficient typing system for the 2N and in
inefficient one for the N, no.

But that was not the case under discussion, retard.

We have two orthogonal things here:
a) a software task that can be done in one way with 2N keypresses and
in another with only N.
b) multiple typing systems with different efficiencies

Now, b) determines a user's cps, which we call X. N > 0 and X > 0.

And 2N/X > N/X, regardless of X, given that N and X are positive.

You are trapped in an inescapable web of logic. Best give up now.

There seems to be an unstated assumption here that all keypresses
take the same amount of time. I'm fairly sure that for a touch
typist that won't be the case. Indeed, it probably won't be
the case for a non-touch-typist either: contrast pressing the
same key N times versus pressing N different keys once each,
and consider also different ways those N different keys could be
located (nearby versus scattered throughout the whole 100+-key
layout of a typical PC keyboard).

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B. L. Massingill
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