On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:05, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> }
>
Oops...substitute "destroying" for "specifying" in the first line.
BobTHJ
> Mills would still be fungible and stateless, and could be used at any
> time, though with slightly different results.
>
> BobTHJ
>
