[Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis...@gmail.com>] > Here's my attempt at some heuristic motivation:
Thanks, Dennis! It helps. One gloss: > .... > The key insight though is that the worst strings are still > "periodic enough", and if we have two different patterns going on, > then we can intentionally split them apart. The amazing (to me) thing is that splitting into JUST two parts is always enough to guarantee linearity. What if there are a million different patterns going on ? Doesn't matter! I assume this remarkable outcome is a consequence of the Critical Factorization Theorem. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/IKPKLR43U522PC55JB7GQZMQSGJHNCKF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/