Of Course, We ve Already Left the World of Baseball


Of Course, We've Already Left the World of Baseball

Things were getting a little hairy. "What did you guys do next?" I asked Roscoe.

"Well, a couple of things became apparent," replied Roscoe. "In fact, Monday sat me down for a chat, and what he said made a lot of sense.

"First thing he told me was that if we wanted to generate baseball probabilities, this was not the best way to proceed. He came up with a scheme whereby we could roll a single die several times and generate what we needed for baseball in three rolls. I had to agree with him on that," Roscoe continued.

"But he also said that the problem of creating probabilities out of the total of three identical dice rolled simultaneously was interesting, in and of itself. He was now more interested in that than in the original problem. So we decided that we would concentrate our focus on seeing if we could figure that one out in all its generality.

"This sometimes happens in the real world, by the way," remarked Roscoe. "We start out trying to solve one problem, only to discover a new, more interesting problem in the process. I think it is called serendipity, or something like that."




The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
The Software Development Edge(c) Essays on Managing Successful Projects
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 269

flylib.com © 2008-2017.
If you may any questions please contact us: flylib@qtcs.net