Hear, hear! and Happy New Year!
Mike
On 28/12/2012 12:22 PM, Dan Bron wrote:
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
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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.
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