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I still have a pretty picture and some links to add tonight, but I intend the task aims to stay the same. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 09:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC) |
I still have a pretty picture and some links to add tonight, but I intend the task aims to stay the same. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 09:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Yep, The New York Times seems to have got the ''exact'' details of the competition wrong. I was wondering why my maxima were under 0.55 so quickly when the NYT mentions n>2**31. See [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2324028 here], which agrees with [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hofstadter-Conway10000-DollarSequence.html this]. Does the draft status of the task allow me to change its goals with impunity ;-)<br> |
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I still have a pretty picture and some links to add tonight, but I intend the task aims to stay the same. --Paddy3118 09:22, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
- Yep, The New York Times seems to have got the exact details of the competition wrong. I was wondering why my maxima were under 0.55 so quickly when the NYT mentions n>2**31. See here, which agrees with this. Does the draft status of the task allow me to change its goals with impunity ;-)
- --Paddy3118 05:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)