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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hey man, you crazy or sumpin?

The most ignorant person can ask a question the wisest most computationally advanced can't answer.

At least, not before the universe ends.

Which I don't get, because the method I would use to solve that problem is only around O(x50). And when I gave the computer the following (at least) O(x50) problem...

... it solved it in an imperceptible length of time.

What's going on here?

3 comments:

Bruce Hoult said...

Isn't it approximately 80.178892031786?

Gael said...

You mean n, or x? There should be (up to) 50 different values for x. I haven't bothered any further with n. If that's n, how'd you do it?

Bruce Hoult said...

Unless I misunderstood your problem, that is hopefully n.

Sorry, I didn't come up with an analytical answer, so that's just the result of searching for the zero crossing using bisection on n.

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