That's easy, Antoine. On a reasonable modern multi-core workstation, I can do 4 billion additions per second. A year is just over 30 million seconds. For 32-bit ints, I can whiz through the task in only 130,000 years. We have at least several hundred million years before the sun engulfs us.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 5:09 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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