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Originally Posted by Braid
Peter, I'm sorry someone has called you dense. It's just that, you don't seem to have understood the explanation that has been put forward.
Imagine, Peter, that you are planning a wedding, and you are inviting everyone in the world to the wedding. You are sending out the invitations via email, but, your email provider's servers just aren't powerful enough to send the billions of wedding invitations to everyone simultaneously. So instead, you have to choose an arbitrary order in which to send out the invitations - let's say the servers can handle ten countries-worth of invitations per day. If there are 196 countries in the world, that means it'll take 20 days until all the invitations are sent out. China is last on the list, and four days in, some Chinese people hear word of the wedding. They ask the Vietnamese, "which email address are you receiving your invitations from?", and the Vietnamese respond, "petercreasey@weddings.com". The Chinese check their inboxes, and their spam folders, but alas, they cannot find their wedding invitations. They ask the New Zealanders, "is petercreasey@weddings.com really the only address sending out invites?". "Yes", say the New Zealanders in response. "Why is petercreasey@weddings.com slow?" ask the Chinese. The New Zealanders say back, "it isn't slow, they are just staggering the invitations by country in an arbitrary order, instead of sending them out all at the same time." |
WAIT! When is the Wedding? When will I get my invitation?
That sounds like a BIG party.