[Antoine Pitrou] > How long do you think it will take your computer to exhaustively search > the space of possible input values to a 2-integer addition function? > Do you think it can finish before the Earth gets engulfed by the Sun?
Yes, ok. I used the word "exhaustively" wrong. Sorry about that. I don't think humans are made of a magical substance that can exhaustively search the space of possible pairs of integers before the heat-death of the universe. I think humans use strategies based, hopefully; in logic to come up with test examples, and that it's often more valuable to capture said strategies in code than to make a human run the algorithms. In cases where domain-knowledge helps inform the search strategy, there should be easy-to-use tools to build a domain-specific search strategy. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:09 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:58:24 -0600 > Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thirdly, Computers are very good at exhaustively searching > multidimensional > > spaces. > > How long do you think it will take your computer to exhaustively search > the space of possible input values to a 2-integer addition function? > > Do you think it can finish before the Earth gets engulfed by the Sun? > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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