On Dec 19, 12:21 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > * Mensanator: > > > > >> That said, and a bit off-tangent to your comment's main thrust, the time > >> spent > >> on coding that repeated-division-by-2 optimization would, I think, be > >> better > >> spent googling "Collatz Conjecture" -- avoiding writing /any/ code. ;-) > > > Ha! I know more about Collatz than you can ever find by Googling! > > And how did I achieve that? By writing such code. Be a good boy and > > maybe I'll show you how to do Ulam's Spiral with Turtle Graphics. > > It's probably good for you that you know so much about Collatz. > > I fail to see the relevance to anything.
No kidding. Here let me explain it: You said my time would be better spent googling "Collatz Conjecture". I said I know more than can be found by googling. Therefore, it follows that my time could NOT be better spent googling. Thus, your staement is shown to be false. QED > > Cheers & hth., > > - Alf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
