[01:37] MSG: Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com [05:31] MSG: Read error: Connection reset by peer [05:32] Join: nescience joined #corewars [05:32] MSG: Read error: Operation timed out [05:33] MSG: Ping timeout: 240 seconds [05:35] Join: johnkw joined #corewars [07:22] Join: Davse_Bam joined #corewars [08:44] Join: fiveop joined #corewars [11:58] Join: CoreOld joined #corewars [12:26] MSG: Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com [16:17] MSG: Quit: Read error: Connection reset by peer [16:23] Join: Metcalf joined #corewars [16:24] Join: CoreOld joined #corewars [16:28] MSG: Ping timeout: 240 seconds [16:28] Join: Metcalf joined #corewars [16:29] Topic Change: Metcalf sets topic: newbies start here - http://tinyurl.com/3rmx53 | FAQ - http://tinyurl.com/3sr9ur | IRC logs - http://tinyurl.com/4tvd2d [16:29] hi [16:31] Hi Mizcu [16:32] Microsoft exchange decided yesterday to spontaneusly stop giving people access [16:32] well, 3 days ago [16:32] result: 7 hours of work, and we still dont know what triggered it, only that now we got it to work again (by reducing security-threshold a bit) [16:35] Join: inversed joined #corewars [16:35] hi inversed [16:35] Hi all [16:36] Hey JM [16:36] :-( [16:36] My new "Make Nothing Online" business is going well :-) [16:36] Hi Inversed :-) [16:36] Are you up to anything interesting? [16:36] (and we also had a spontaneus bsod-reboot -loop smashup on a computer, but that was traced into fuckup on XP SP3) [16:36] So you're participating in recmath [16:36] Got my mail? [16:37] Yes, but I've given up now [16:37] I wasn't improving my scores [16:37] Checking for mail [16:37] What method? [16:37] Finally I have ADSL [16:38] heh, and well get DSL over fiber (?!) in 3 weeks [16:38] My recmath program is here http://retrocode.blogspot.com/2008/09/al-zimmermanns-programming-contests.html [16:40] ZOMG completely in assembler [16:40] I'm using mobile broadband, the connection is rubbish. :-( [16:43] With unlim ADSL I'll be sitting here more frequently [16:43] So you still have not found optimal solution for N=5? [16:43] No :-( [16:44] I suggest following constrains to speed up your prog: [16:45] I just enumerate all possibilities. One odd number, one a multiple of 6 and the remainder multiples of 30 [16:45] 1 number wit least divisor = 23 [16:45] *with [16:46] I simplified the program slightly for publication, it's about twice the size [16:46] Also try checking Prime numbers instead of odds [16:47] It should really speed it up [16:47] So it's only a bruteforcer? [16:48] Yes. I prefer to think less and let the computer do the work :-) [16:48] I'm surprised you made it to top100 with only a bruteforcer [16:52] I added a few conditions in. For example, it abandons testing sets part way through if it can't achieve a top score. Also it does a check for poor values, e.g. if a+b = c-b [16:53] For N>=10 bruteforcing must be pretty ineffective [16:54] People with top scores must be using some tricky math [16:55] Yes, but I've worked with X(n) = x(n-1) *3 for then larger N [16:55] why *3 ? [16:56] Because it seemed to work. *2 wouldn't work [16:57] why not simply x(n)=x(n-1) ? [16:59] Because that reduces the number of possibilities [16:59] And *2 reduces the possibilities [16:59] Roy has been evolving solutions [16:59] Me too [17:01] We're close, Roy=65, me=68 [17:02] I'm not so close :-) [17:13] MSG: Ping timeout: 240 seconds [17:13] Join: Metcalf joined #corewars [17:57] MSG: Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com [19:09] Join: fiveop_ joined #corewars [19:10] MSG: Read error: Operation timed out [19:35] Join: fiveop joined #corewars [19:37] MSG: Read error: Operation timed out [20:07] Join: fiveop_ joined #corewars [20:07] MSG: Ping timeout: 240 seconds [20:09] MSG: Read error: Operation timed out [20:09] Join: Metcalf joined #corewars [20:36] MSG: Ping timeout: 240 seconds [20:37] Join: Metcalf joined #corewars [22:54] MSG: Ping timeout: 240 seconds [23:18] Join: Metcalf joined #corewars [23:47] Join: Mannerisk joined #corewars