| Lofti Zadeh wrote to John Sowa -- | | I would like to see your solutions [to] | | Usually it takes Robert about an hour to get home from work. | Usually Robert leaves office at about 5 pm__ | What is the probability that Robert is home at 6:l5 pm? | | IBL wrote: Here is how to do this in Executable English | You can view, run and change it by visiting www.reengineeringllc.com and selecting Zadeh2 usually, some-person leaves work about some-time with probability some-prob that-person can take some-approx-number hour(s) to get home that-time + that-approx-number = some-arrival-time ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the probability that that-person gets home at that-arrival-time (with decimal part of hour) is that-prob it usually takes this-person about this-number hour(s) to get home =================================================================== Robert 1 usually, this-person leaves work about this-time ================================================= Robert 5 it usually takes some-person about some-number hour(s) to get home the usual number of commuting hours varies by some-amount with probability some-prob that-number + that-amount = some-approx-number ------------------------------------------------------------------ with probability that-prob that-person can take that-approx-number hour(s) to get home the usual number of commuting hours varies by some-amount with probability some-prob =================================================================================== -0.25 0.1 0 0.2 0.25 0.5 | This file is an application written in the language Executable English. | You can view, run and change it by pointing a browser | to www.reengineeringllc.com and selecting Zadeh2.