Awesome..... thank you! On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:15 PM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Or to do the full distribution ... > > put Njobs div Ndrivers into tMin > put NJobs mod Ndrivers into tExtras > > repeat with i = 1 to NDrivers > if i <= tExtras then > allocate tMin+1 > else > allocate tMin > end if > end repeat > > However, say your drivers are sorted alphabetically, then before long > Andy will realise that he is being allocated more jobs that Zebedee. You > could (sometimes) reverse the order of drivers - but then Mary loses out > on jobs compared to both Andy and Zebedee. Or you could randomize the > order of the drivers - but maybe they're also pre-sorted by location. > > Instead, you want to even out the spread of extras across the drivers - > so you need something like > > repeat with i = 1 to Ndrivers > if tExtras > (Ndrivers-i)/2 then > allocate tMin+1 > subtract 1 from tExtras > else > allocate tMin > end if > end repeat > > (which still has a slight bias towards giving jobs to Zebedee - but it's > so slight it will take probably take him years to notice :-) > > Alex. > > On 17/04/2020 05:28, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: > > Hi Skip, > > Forgive me if this is not the answer you seek, or an oversimplification, > but there is an easy way to find if the jobs can be exactly evenly > distributed, with nothing left over: > > if (tjobs mod tdrivers) = 0 then // it is evenly distrutable. > > .Jerry > > > >> On Apr 16, 2020, at 7:41 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> > >> I have working on creating a loop that would divide the number of jobs > by > >> the number of users and then checking to see to see if it is evenly > >> divisible but that is kind of where I am stuck. Everything I have tried > >> thus far has proven to be unsuccessful. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
