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A person with three or more watches knows what time it is in proportion to the square root of the number of watches.
by nullc 1y ago
A person with three or more watches knows what time it is in proportion to the square root of the number of watches.
- stinkbeetle 1y agoA person with four watches knows what time it is in proportion to 2?
- dspillett 1y agoSort of. With two watches your confidence is ~1.4 of an arbitrary measurement, with three it is ~1.7, with 4 ~2, etc. Though this is an ever-growing sequence. A better model might be to measure the confidence with something like (x-1)/x as this grows, more slowly with each step, towards 1, without really getting there until infinity. With two watches you are 50% of maximum confidence in your time, with three 66%, with four 75%, five->80%, and so on.