[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ever heard of the Busy Beaver function? The values of the function > grow so fast that I think they've only > managed to find BB(1), BB(2), BB(3) and BB(4). > > IIRC, People think no one will ever find BB(5) let alone BB(6) and beyond.
A set of 5-state rules discovered by Marxen and Buntrock (1990) that gives the largest known values Sigma(5)==4098 and S(5)==47176870 is illustrated above (Wolfram 2002, p. 889). http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BusyBeaver.html -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
