Comments on: One Man, One Bowl: The Ultimate Heuristic For Dish Management http://yonkeltron.com/2007/10/21/one-man-one-bowl-the-ultimate-heuristic-for-dish-management/ Temporary Exile Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:07:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Yoni Rabkin http://yonkeltron.com/2007/10/21/one-man-one-bowl-the-ultimate-heuristic-for-dish-management/#comment-27243 Yoni Rabkin Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:25:47 +0000 http://yonkeltron.com/2007/10/21/one-man-one-bowl-the-ultimate-heuristic-for-dish-management/#comment-27243 I think you have a typo: "m is the duration of the meal, m is the time between the end of the meal and the beginning of the beginning...". You probably meant the second "m" to be a "b". shouldn't $c$ be the time between the \emph{end} of the cleaning process to the next meal? You can't really say that the dish is clean until you stopped cleaning it. By definition, you only stop when it is clean. Also, there are constraints on the variables which are not mentioned. For example, how short can a meal get? I propose instituting the standard IDF 6 minutes for a minimum. I think you have a typo: “m is the duration of the meal, m is the time between the end of the meal and the beginning of the beginning…”. You probably meant the second “m” to be a “b”.

shouldn’t $c$ be the time between the \emph{end} of the cleaning process to the next meal? You can’t really say that the dish is clean until you stopped cleaning it. By definition, you only stop when it is clean.

Also, there are constraints on the variables which are not mentioned. For example, how short can a meal get? I propose instituting the standard IDF 6 minutes for a minimum.

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