Talk:Attractive numbers
optional requirements?
What about some optional requirements, such as:
- showing the number (count) of attractive numbers up to and including:
- 10,000
- 100,000
- 1,000,000
The last optional requirement (extra credit) would/could show the robustness of the code. -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 08:52, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
- I would suggest 10^5 but not 10^6, which would heat a lot of cores, reduce the number of participating languages, and perhaps yield rather limited additional insight or opportunities for learning ?
- You did read where I said optional, didn't you? I don't think people will skip a task based on the optional or stretch goal (or extra/extended credit, et al). -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 14:54, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
- I don't think anybody (including the environment) will be impacted for computing (largish) attractive numbers. I never shut my computer off, and there isn't much power increase of running (at full throttle) one engine. For me, this is "free" heat, as anything the PC generates for heat, my furnace doesn't have to run a tenth of a second. Six of one, a half-dozen of the other. I only pay around 8¢/KWH (kilowatt-hour), but some people pay around the 12¢/KWH range (or more, my friend in Boston used to pay around 14.2¢/KWH about seven years ago). Converting that figure from kilowatt-hours to kilowatt-seconds borders on the ludicrous, but still fun to do back-of-the-envelope calculations. From my ammeter, my (slow) PC uses about 40 watts, my (newer and faster) PC uses less. Counting the number of attractive numbers up to one million (assuming that I'll pay the extra amount of power used (even though the computer would be running anyway), would've cost me quite a bit less than 1¢ (1¢÷90), by my calculations. Now, $0.000111 is barely noticeably, but ya know, if a crowd of a couple of dozen people execute it, well ... that's still piddly monies. If anybody wants a refund, send me a SASE and I'll write you a check. Now, to me, this is funny. The cores! The hot cores! Just think of all the electrons killed just sending this message. (And people say the electrical engineers don't any sense of humor). 😊 -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 14:54, 21 October 2019 (UTC)