On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:47, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> announcement, with the consent of that farmer. At the beginning of
>> each week, after Digit Ranches produce crops, each Mill processes and
>> removes the first available milling job with a matching Operator, if
>> any, from its owner's milling queue.
>
> I object. I don't want to have to wait until next week to mill, when
> I might need the resulting crops to make time-sensitive harvests.
>
What about this:
{
Once each week for each Operator, a farmer may mill by specifying two
crops e owns. E then forms a mathematical expression using the values
of those two crops and the value of the chosen Operator exactly once
each, and e evaluates the expression over the finite field of integers
modulo 11. If the result is a number, e gains one Crop of the
corresponding type for each Mill e owned at the beginning of that week
with the corresponding Operator.
}
Mills would still be fungible and stateless, and could be used at any
time, though with slightly different results.
BobTHJ
