PIP - Pick In Proportion

PIP - Pick in Proportion.

You need to deal out a stream of items one at a time in proportions.

You could use a round robin list. A,B,C,A,B,A,B,C,A,B,A,B,C

This idea uses a bank of numerical controlled oscillators.

You have an array of buckets, and these accumulate fill in the required proportions.

You have a bucket for each destination.

 OnItemRecieved{
   Add requiredProportionToBuckets()
   // Pick distination
   FindBucketWithMostFill()
   // Look for bucket with most fill, Thats the destination, and empty it.
   DeliverItemToDestination( FindBucketWithMostFill() )
   EmptyFullestBucket( FindBucketWithMostFill() )
 }

Names

PIP Personal Improvement Plan PIP Pick In Proportion

When you pick a bucket do you need to empty the whole bucket

You could measure the rate of OnItem Requests.

Could you have a bucket that backed off traffic, like the fairground penny fall profit.

Could you have a bucket that leaked.