this is taking forever...

Mday

Lifer
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i am taking number theory, and using java to help with some calculations =P and excel for others.

needless to say, doing testing from 1 to a million takes a while.

it passed 80k a short time ago... the next predicted "appearance" of a successful test is at 190k.
 

Mo0o

Lifer
Jul 31, 2001
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i may be wrong but shouldn't ther be a more...slick way of doing math than brute force?
 

shikhan

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Mar 15, 2001
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Hehehe, yea, there's almost always a slicker way than brute force in math... Especially in number theory. Brute force rarely works. My teach always made it so that brute force wouldn't work/would take forever however, if we managed to see it from a certain angle, it becames fairly easy :)

I really think you're going about it the wrong way!