ErlangB Calculator v1.0 for PalmOS 2.0+ Author: Erick González ([email protected])

Description: This utility lets you calculate the number of channels or circuits needed to convey a certain ammount of call traffic (in Erlangs), or viceversa, given a blocking probability (sometimes called Grade of Service). It spares you the need to look up tedious ErlangB tables.

Installation: Just load the ErlangB.prc file into your pilot.

Note: The first version of this app used numerical algorithms to calculate the ErlangB formula. However it was ludicrously sloooow. This one just looks numbers up in an internal table. Which hurts accuracy when computing channels for a given traffic. This also limits the GoS to the values shown on the screen. None of this drawbacks are really a problem, and you get instantaneous responses from your pilot, which is what we all want anyway...(for accuracy go buy a Cray).