Re: Marble Clock

[gattamaneni abhiram <abhiram.gattamaneni@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 5:14:07 AM UTC-4, Simon Wright wrote:
> Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:46:10 PM UTC-5, gattamaneni abhiram wrote:
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> >> Do I need to use timer functions in the program to depict the changes
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> >> in the places of the marbles in different trays?
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> > I believe that would be the simpler way to do it.  Of course, you
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> > always can simulate the materials and workmanship of an actual clock
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> > with masses, gravitational acceleration, etc.  :-)
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> > Note that the non-realtime timer in Ada is the "delay" statement:
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> > "delay 3.1", for example, will delay for 3.1 seconds.
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> You (gattameini) definitely should *not* use more than one timer
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> function (when_to_run := when_to_run + 1.0; delay until when_to_run;),
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> for when the next marble is to enter the top tray.
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> IRL there will be a finite delay for the mechanism to click through any
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> carries that may be needed, but I very much doubt you're required to
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> simulate that.
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> BTW, people, did you notice how I trimmed the quoted part of this so
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> that it only contains the bit I'm actually replying to? You seem to be
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> Google Groups users, so you probably don't notice what a complete pig's
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> ear GG makes of quoting!!!

Thank You for the help. I completed the coding part using stacks for the trays and a Queue for the reservoir. I am stuck at a point, I need to determine the number of 12-hour cycles the clock goes through before the marbles in the reservoir are back in their original order
(relative to the number of input marbles used to fill the reservoir). Can you help me with this?