Epsilon Is Really Tiny

Beware this, youngling professors — when you are a committee chair, you will do way more than 100%/N of the committee workload, where N is the number of committee members. You will do 100% – epsilon, where epsilon is an infinitesimally small number.

So true. As I discovered this semester. Being a committee chair is like teaching. You get to work while everybody else gets to lose their homework and forget to show up on time.

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Indeed, epsilon can be any positive number at all!

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Clarissa says:

December 3, 2016 at 08:03

I just like the word because it sounds cute. 😄

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lamestllama says:

December 3, 2016 at 15:59

It makes no sense if epsilon is a positive number greater than (N-1)*100%/N because then the chair would be doing less than 100%/N of the committee workload.

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