> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
> <snip>
> > 0.729. However, random events like finding factors, arrival of buses,
> > airplane crashes etc. always seem to arrive in bunches. I've had a
> finding factors only seems to come in cluster, but the other two does
> haver mechanisms that does make them actually cluster up.
>
> Bus arrival clustering is cause by a well known positive feedback
> mechanism since any difference in the interval between busses will cause
> more passenres to arrive at the stops before the late bus, making it even
> later. Only way to prevent this is to include pauses in each bus's
> schedule, but traffic plannners seem to be too stupid to understand this
> and tries to do it with tighter schedules instead.
With regards to factoring, if prime finds a factor then it can start
on another one more quickly increasing the factors found per time.
-Lucas Wiman
>
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