Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Thu Dec 11 18:43:43 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mBC2hh34000756 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:43:43 -0800 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mBC2kKL3001566 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:46:20 -0800 Message-Id: <200812120246.mBC2kKL3001566@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CS 551 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:46:20 -0800 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > In homework - Pr.4, for the part (2) , how did the solution come to > the conclusion that the bucket size of 2 that we arrived at is > sufficient? If B = 2, then everything in the Bucket Volume column will be bumped up by 2. Then nothing will be negative. So, B = 2 is sufficient. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu