Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon...
by ulucs on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:13AM
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If you have a calculator on hand, could you post the n such that these two rules are equivalent? It’s wrinkling my brain.
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Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon...
by marcianx on Saturday July 18, 2020 @07:57AM
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How can you? One is taking about 80% of the work and the other is talking about half the work. You would need a distribution of the work impact across the employee population first.
Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon...
by ulucs on Monday July 20, 2020 @11:00AM
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The Pareto rule (at least my interpretation, due to its similarity with a power distribution) is recursive: 80% completeness from 20% work also implies 64% completeness from 4% work which in turn gives 51.2% completeness from 0.8% work (half of success is just showing up).
Accepting 51.2% as an approximation to half, the problem becomes 0.008 x = sqrt(x) which gives x = 125^2 = 15,625