On 26 May 2013 01:33, Steve Litt <
slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>> On 25 May 2013 01:28, Steve Litt <
slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Vaughan,
>
> Where in the program did you tell it you're using 40 bit numbers? Or
> did you just quit when you reached
>
> 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001111111111111110000000000000000000000000
>
> ?
>
Yes, I just checked that the number was over 2^40.
> Did you find any evidence of your computer CPU overheating?
No, my 2008 iMac coped fine. It got a bit warm, but not as warm as an equivalent time playing Starcraft would (not that I have that kind of time to spare these days). It’s nearly winter here in Australia.
>
> What properties made some of these numbers more interesting than
> others? Did you use pipes like:
>
> ./find_fifteens | ./show_interesting.sh > interesting_numbers.txt
>
I’m laying an area of pavers 8 wide by 5 down, with dark and light pavers available. I wanted to do an ‘interesting’ pattern... being fond of the golden ratio and noticing 8 & 5 are Fibbonaccci numbers, I thought I could encode a 40-bit number that when read from the (right) side, is the golden ratio away from when it is read from the bottom.
So what I have found is:
| 01110111
| 01000100
| 00101000
| 10100000
| 10100010
is 0x774428a0a2... when read looking from the right you get:
11000 00011 11101 00001 00100 00011 10001 00001
or 0xc0fa120e21
print(0xc0fa120e21 / 0x774428a0a2) gives you the golden ratio to 11 decimal places, which is the most interesting to me :-)
You’ll notice I’m using a Hamming weight of 15 instead of 25. Either way was fine if the ones and zeros relate by roughly the golden mean.
> ./find_fifteens | ./show_interesting.sh > interesting_numbers.txt
> These are the times I love computers. I might do this myself.
>
No, I just printed out the best result as it appeared. But you are correct... computers can be a lot of fun :)
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
Cheers,
Vaughan
