Guys, take it offline. -Dan
Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. On Dec 28, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Bo Jacoby <bojac...@yahoo.dk> wrote: > > It is amazing that the computation of the whole sequence of 5000 items takes > almost the same time as the most complicated of the items. > (6!:2)' ((0 3+*&5)^:5000)1 0x' > 0.503731 > (6!:2)' ((0 3+*&5)^:(>:i.5000))1 0x' > 0.611015 > > Boyko wrote: "that finding a wrong answer to a problem can be cheaper than > finding the correct one > > which you have been doing recently, although you pretend to be finding a > correct answer". I don't know which wrong answer he is referring to. > > > - Bo > > > >> ________________________________ >> Fra: Boyko Bantchev <boyk...@gmail.com> >> Til: programm...@jsoftware.com >> Sendt: 12:32 fredag den 28. december 2012 >> Emne: Re: [Jprogramming] arithmetic sequence >> >> On 28 December 2012 01:41, Bo Jacoby <bojac...@yahoo.dk> wrote: >>> To me it is not clear what the exact domain is. >> >> Then read the original post at >> http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2012-December/030601.html >> which states the problem clear enough to me and, by all evidence, >> to everybody else in this thread but you. >> >>> The problem was to solve the recursion S(n+1)=3+5*S(n), S(0)=K. >> >> You must be joking. This was not the problem. >> >> Now, please don't waste your, and others', time to prove trivial, >> exceptionally boring things, such as that a single member of a >> sequence can be computed faster than computing the whole sequence >> (like you did before), or that finding a wrong answer to a problem >> can be cheaper than finding the correct one (which you have been >> doing recently, although you pretend to be finding a correct answer). >> Such exercises are useless. They are especially futile as a means >> to attack my claims, as you attempted. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
