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| Sep 20, 2013 at 23:18 | comment | added | aaaaaaaaaaaa | Sleekest square root of the pack, nice job, and an official victory badge. | |
| Sep 20, 2013 at 23:09 | vote | accept | aaaaaaaaaaaa | ||
| Sep 13, 2013 at 16:42 | history | edited | primo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 16:09 | comment | added | primo | @eBusiness fixed. | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 16:09 | history | edited | primo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 15:58 | comment | added | primo |
@eBusiness I initially had 2 Halley's with a similarly chosen seed totaling 25 ops - with error when A = 0 - so this is in fact shorter. About 4294967295, that was an oversight: as 65536² ≡ 0, the correction iteration fails to correct. I'll see if I can find an alternative.
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | aaaaaaaaaaaa |
I don't think Halley would have been worth it anyway, from a far off guess it will improve by a little less than a factor of 3, Newton does a little less than a factor of 2. Similarly from a good guess Halley will triple the accuracy, Newton will double it. So one Halley iteration is worth pretty exactly log(3)/log(2) ~= 1.585 Newton iterations.
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 14:15 | comment | added | aaaaaaaaaaaa | Pretty nice, but fails for 4294967295. As for the rules, they gotta be tight to make it interesting. You can argue what exact premises make the best challenge, but ultimately it is far more important that the rules are clear and unambiguous, than what exactly they allow. | |
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 7:34 | history | edited | primo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 13, 2013 at 7:28 | history | answered | primo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |