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by Ford Stone
Mon Jun 19, 2000 9:39 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: linking flow to flow directly?
Replies: 9
Views: 40862

linking flow to flow directly?

X-UIDL: 10527-938505322 Status: O X-Status: Bill Braun wrote: > > Many thanks for the question and the challenge. My rationale may be based > on a misunderstanding. No, I think its my mistake; I just choked on the language > "Try linking the inflow > directly to the outflow > (bypassing the sto...
by Ford Stone
Fri Jun 16, 2000 10:10 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: linking flow to flow directly?
Replies: 9
Views: 40862

linking flow to flow directly?

X-UIDL: 10366-938505322 Status: O X-Status: Greetings: Bill Braun wrote: "Try linking the inflow directly to the outflow (bypassing the stock) and use the delay as such: flow: shrimp entering lagoon = some input flow: shrimp leaving lagoon = delay(shrimp entering lagoon, time in lagoon)" P...
by Ford Stone
Fri Jul 30, 1999 8:19 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Where Do Babies Come From
Replies: 3
Views: 5357

Where Do Babies Come From

Bill Braun wrote: > I had the same difficulty until someone suggested that I think of the > clouds simply as a convention for indicating the boudaries of the model. As > she put it, You could have included a lot more in the model and you didnt. Not to belabor the point, I do appreciate - and support...
by Ford Stone
Wed Jul 28, 1999 11:51 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: Strange spreadsheet concept
Replies: 14
Views: 16514

Strange spreadsheet concept

Khalid Saeed wrote: > A good model must be identifiable in real world. Circular flows are > illogical as far as the real world is concerned. A software that allows > this is not appropriate for use in system dynamics modeling no matter > how compact a model it creates. Im sorry, but I dont quite get...