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#51 2013-04-24 17:07:49
- phrontister
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Good luck with that! I have to go out now...
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#52 2013-04-24 19:57:56
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Hi;
Sorry, but problems still not fixed and it looks like my connectivity will be on and off for the rest of the night.
See you later.
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#53 2013-04-24 22:29:35
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Hi Bobby,
Just messin' 'round with output presentation, and also included a timer, infinite looping (for looooong calcs) and a prompt for P. Here's what I've done:
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#54 2013-04-24 22:36:42
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Hi;
Your machine is faster than mine. Mine took 12 seconds.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#55 2013-04-25 00:01:35
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I grease the workings of my computer with Vegemite. If you want to try that on your machine to soup it up, just make sure you don't use molasses, which has a similar appearance but will have the opposite effect.
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#56 2013-04-25 04:55:27
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Hi phrontister;
I will try that but vegemite is hard to come by here.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#57 2013-04-25 04:59:07
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Hi Bobby,
You probably already know approx how the running times of the various parts of your code compare, but I thought I'd run a 'Timing' test so I could see which area/s could do with some speeding up. I used P=13 and minimum upper limits.
0.047 seconds: p = Table[Prime[k], {k, 1, 45793}];
0.109 seconds: ans = Accumulate[Table[p[[n]]^13, {n, 1, 45793}]];
10.656 seconds: Position[MapIndexed[fubar, ans], {{True}, {True}}]
I'm not sure how to break that last one into separate times for Position and MapIndexed, but from a test I tried it seems that MapIndexed takes up most of the combined time (but I may be wrong there, because I had to split that line into two for Timing to work).
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#58 2013-04-25 05:09:04
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Hi;
That is to be expected, that is where the primality testing is. But it does look like I did not choose the best way possible.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#59 2013-04-25 05:11:59
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Getting sleepy...my inbuilt clock is running down. 
CuL8r.
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#60 2013-04-25 05:19:08
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Hi;
Okay, have a good night. Maybe I will have something to post when you get back.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#61 2013-04-25 13:05:23
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Hi Bobby,
I just changed my code in post #53 to remove the upper limit, which will be useful for cooking my cpu during long service leave if I particularly want to solve a hard-to-get P value.
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#62 2013-04-25 14:19:48
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Hi;
There is some strange coincidence with these answers.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#63 2013-04-25 14:33:36
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What have you discovered?
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#64 2013-04-25 14:37:02
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That all the n's are odd.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#65 2013-04-25 14:46:13
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That is an 'odd' coincidence!
Actually, I don't know how to check that. I tried printing n, but failed.
And I have to go out now...
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#66 2013-04-25 14:51:23
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Okay, there are even answers but the first answer is so far always odd. Have a good time.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#67 2013-04-25 15:21:16
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hi bobbym
Yeah I notice it too..can you get n to be even for Ps? It is like finding odd perfect numbers, so far all perfect numbers are even.
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#68 2013-04-25 15:55:17
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Hi;
This is an even answer for n, but it is not the smallest one.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#69 2013-04-25 18:32:27
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I changed my code to run automatically while I was out, and got the following:
All odd from P=2 to P=43.
Then 3 evens:
P=47: n=43620
P=53: n=10102
P=59: n=181138
P=61 is back to odd again, and then 3 evens:
P=67 n=25982
P=71: n=64636
P=73: n=342
There may not be an odd:even pattern.
P=79 is computing now, but is taking a long time.
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#70 2013-04-25 18:34:59
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Oops...for P=37, n=57126
...and P=79: n=621475
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#71 2013-04-25 18:38:06
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Was that P = 37 the smallest one?
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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#72 2013-04-25 18:51:32
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Yes. I tested it in your program and in mine.
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#73 2013-04-25 18:57:15
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Okay, then that puts that conjecture to sleep.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#74 2013-04-25 19:30:30
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If there is no computer maybe it would take hundreds of years to verify this for sure. But now it takes less than a day:)
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#75 2013-04-25 22:15:27
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Hi Stangerzv;
I doubt that anyone would ever be attempting this without a computer.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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