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Subject: 
Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 6 May 2002 19:35:49 GMT
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On Mon, 6 May 2002, Steve Bliss wrote:

In lugnet.starwars, Larry Pieniazek writes:
My thinking here is that there is a polynomial or even exponential time
function at work with large sets. The more parts a set has, the greater the
fraction of total build time is spent looking for a particular part. The way
to decrease that fraction is to sort the parts first.

But now TLC has started breaking up the parts into sequentially needed
bags (see, e.g., 7153) so the number of parts with which you must deal at
any one time is substantially less than the total number of parts in the
set.

OTOH, sometimes it's ... fun ... to sort all the parts, in neat little rows
and columns, with all the plates over here, and the slopes over there, and
the wheels off in the corner, etc, etc.

This also makes it easier to do the inventory. . .

--
TWS Garrison
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
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  Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
 
(...) Why dump the parts out of the bags? Usually, the parts are organized *mostly* by size -- all the smallest parts in one bag, all the biggest parts in another bag, and then everything in between going whereever it goes. Once you learn which bag (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)

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