Adrian wrote:
Oh, I dunno...

Driver A does 5,000 miles per year, and gets one speeding ticket every
three years.

Driver B does 50,000 miles per year, and gets one speeding ticket per year.

Who gets nicked with greater frequency?

Units of frequency (Hz) are 1/seconds, so driver B, with
about (errm) 0.3e-7 ticket/s, as opposed to 0.1e-7 ticket/s
for driver A.

#Paul

wrote:
Adrian wrote:
Oh, I dunno...

Driver A does 5,000 miles per year, and gets one speeding ticket
every three years.

Driver B does 50,000 miles per year, and gets one speeding ticket
per year.

Who gets nicked with greater frequency?

Units of frequency (Hz) are 1/seconds, so driver B, with
about (errm) 0.3e-7 ticket/s, as opposed to 0.1e-7 ticket/s
for driver A.

Except that in this instance "units of frequency" are miles per hour.

In article , Brimstone
writes
Units of frequency (Hz) are 1/seconds, so driver B, with
about (errm) 0.3e-7 ticket/s, as opposed to 0.1e-7 ticket/s
for driver A.
Except that in this instance "units of frequency" are miles per hour.

Nope: that's a unit of speed or velocity.

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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Brimstone
writes
Units of frequency (Hz) are 1/seconds, so driver B, with
about (errm) 0.3e-7 ticket/s, as opposed to 0.1e-7 ticket/s
for driver A.
Except that in this instance "units of frequency" are miles per hour.

Nope: that's a unit of speed or velocity.

Quite, it represents the frequency with which a given unit passes over a
given distance.

Brimstone wrote:
Nope: that's a unit of speed or velocity.

Quite, it represents the frequency with which a given unit passes over a
given distance.

"Rate"

#Paul

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:02:53 +0000, wrote:

Brimstone wrote:
Nope: that's a unit of speed or velocity.

Quite, it represents the frequency with which a given unit passes over a
given distance.

"Rate"

I'll put down a traep.

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:18:39 +0000,
wrote:

Adrian wrote:
Oh, I dunno...

Driver A does 5,000 miles per year, and gets one speeding ticket every
three years.

Driver B does 50,000 miles per year, and gets one speeding ticket per year.

Who gets nicked with greater frequency?

Units of frequency (Hz) are 1/seconds, so driver B, with
about (errm) 0.3e-7 ticket/s, as opposed to 0.1e-7 ticket/s
for driver A.

That email address says it all!