Song length quota?

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by mailotron

What about calculating the inverse Laplace's tranform of the requested quotat ? Or a non linear 5th degree smooth curve of quotat versus Moonies hematocrytis blood concentration no thanks

The Laplace Transform (the engineer/mathematician in me gets to shine) is a way to model functions in the time domain into the frequency domain. The inverse Laplace would be frequency domain function modeled into the time domain.

Any quota would be a constant which in the frequency domain would map into the time domain as the dirac delta -- a function which has infinite magnitude and zero duration. I'm not sure how I would apply this to request policy. It would seem to me that the policy should permit an infinite number of song requests as long as the song was 0 seconds duration. The corollary to this would be that any song of length greater than 0 seconds could not be requested. We implement the corollary on Wednesday!

On the 5th degree curve... a Bezier curve (a cubic) is far easier to compute. Quartic and higher order splines are very difficult to compute even if hermetian polynomial expansions are truncated after a few terms. I think it would be much simpler for me to just yank a request if I hear it too often.