The Stats Department is responsible for running all the numbers. All of them. Power consumption ratios, population and demographic statistics, gridbug fault-tracking, weather trends, traffic patterns, long-term sustainability calculations -- you bring them the raw figures, they do the math and tell you what it means.
Every city has its Stats division, with multiple branches for bigger cities where travel lag might delay the results. The branch where Ram works, serving a large portion of Tron City, is a busy, upbeat place. Since it can be important to get the right figures as fast as possible (say, when calculating power settings necessary to reduce the effects of a surge or crash), the department makes sure to have more than enough backup programs in place to handle twice their normal load; thus, the Stats programs are seldom overworked and have plenty of time for fun.
They do a lot of recruiting, too. Ram, a former actuarial program written to deal with risk management calculations, fits in fine, and encourages anyone written to deal with numbers or number theory to apply.
TRON CITY: Department of Statistics and Analysis
Every city has its Stats division, with multiple branches for bigger cities where travel lag might delay the results. The branch where Ram works, serving a large portion of Tron City, is a busy, upbeat place. Since it can be important to get the right figures as fast as possible (say, when calculating power settings necessary to reduce the effects of a surge or crash), the department makes sure to have more than enough backup programs in place to handle twice their normal load; thus, the Stats programs are seldom overworked and have plenty of time for fun.
They do a lot of recruiting, too. Ram, a former actuarial program written to deal with risk management calculations, fits in fine, and encourages anyone written to deal with numbers or number theory to apply.