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Re^2: Help with exponential backoff

by jdtoronto (Prior)
on Oct 11, 2006 at 15:47 UTC ( [id://577628]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Help with exponential backoff
in thread Help with exponential backoff

Thanks jasonk, that will do it.

I was also pondering the old method of randomly selecting a random 'sleep' between 1 and 2**n, but I don't think that is necessary.

By the way, exponentiation operator is ** not *.

jdtoronto

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