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Author Phillip.M.Feldman@gmail.com
Recipients Phillip.M.Feldman, Phillip.M.Feldman@gmail.com, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date 2011-09-12.19:59:26
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Here's an example of a problem from an entirely different domain:

An error control coding scheme can correct up to 3 errors in the header of a
packet and up to one error in the body of a packet. A given message is
divided into four consecutive packets. Find all possible correctible
distributions of 6 errors among the four packets, treating the order of the
four packets as significant.

Phillip

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Phillip M. Feldman
<report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> Phillip M. Feldman <Phillip.M.Feldman@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> This is a fair question.  Suppose that I have three boxes with capacity
> limits of 3, 2, and 1, and that there are three balls in total.  Two of the
> possible distributions are the following:
>
> 2, 0, 1
> 2, 1, 0
>
> Capacity limits of the individual boxes must be observed when distributing
> the balls.  Even though the second and third boxes have different
> capacities, we must treat the above two distributions of balls as
> equivalent.
>
> Combinatorics problems involving boxes with capacity limits arise in such
> application domains as physics and reliability.
>
> Phillip
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> added the comment:
> >
> > > "unlabelled balls in unlabelled boxes with capacity limits"
> >
> > What does this mean?  If the boxes are unlabelled, how can they have
> > individual capacity limits?  Or do you mean just a single limit that
> applies
> > to all boxes?
> >
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