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Subject: Re: Average Times
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:40:52 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > What should be considered as System leaving time (to calculate avg time
  > spend in system) if CTRL+C is pressed and all the customers are flushed.

You should think about this and document it in your README file!
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>





  On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>wrote:
  
  > Someone wrote:
  >
  >  > I have two queries:
  >  > 1) We don't consider customers dropped when calculating the avg service
  >  > time right?
  >
  > Please see my message with timestamp "Sun 21 Sep 21:03".
  >
  >  > 2) I am not sure of what average time spent in the system mean.
  >
  > Time spent in the system for a customer is the elapsed
  > time between the time the customer arrives and the time
  > the customer leaves the server.  If you have N samples
  > of "time spent in the system", the average time spent
  > in the system is the sum of all N samples divided by N.
  > --
  > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>