On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:04 pm, jonas.thornv...@gmail.com wrote: > Ok, try to see it this way ****very big**** numbers can be described as > the sum or difference between a sequense of a few polynomials.
*Any* number, big or small, can be given as the sum or difference of a few polynomials: 15 = (25*x**2 - 2*x + 40) - (25*x**2 - 2*x + 25) But... why am I wasting my time with the x**2 and x terms? They must *always* cancel, because I'm trying to simplify to a constant. So I should just write: 15 = 40 - 25 but that's a waste of time to. I should just write: 15 and be done. The same applies for any number, no matter how big. > Unfortunately we lack the computational skill/computing power to find > them. > > That is not the case using foldings/geometric series. You still haven't explained how you are supposed to compress 10**100 possible inputs to just 10**6 outputs without any loss of information. -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
