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Subject: Re: Large number of tasks slows down my program (using debian) - any
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> On 04/05/2018 04:07 PM, Brad Moore wrote:
>>
>> The problem there is to create 503 tasks, and then use some sort of
>> message passing to pass a "token" in a ring from from task to the
>> next, 50_000_000 times, printing out the task number that ended up
>> with the token at the end.
>
> Isn't the answer always 291?

In the three I looked at the answer was 292.