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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:36:21 +0100
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
From: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OOM handling
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>> I didn't quite understand Martin's comments about "not normalised" -
>> presumably this is some mathematical argument, but what does this actually
>> mean?
>
>Not mathematics. It's from physics. Very trivial physics, basic scool
>indeed.
>If you try to calculate some weightning
>factors which involve different units (in this case mostly seconds and
>bits)
>then you will have to make sure tha those units get factorized out.
>Rik is just throwing the absolute values together...

Understood - my Physics courses covered this as well, but not using the
word "normalise".

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