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the extra time taken to draw a 9 vs a 7 was worth it Is it??? Adding one more exponent is huge, while 7->9 feels much smaller. It's all intuition, though. Does
by ced 16y ago
the extra time taken to draw a 9 vs a 7 was worth it
Is it??? Adding one more exponent is huge, while 7->9 feels much smaller. It's all intuition, though. Does anyone know how to tackle such a question?
Limited empirical results say:
CL-USER> (log (expt 9 9))
19.77502
CL-USER> (log (expt 7 (expt 7 7)))
1602540.6
Taking the log of an expt is silly, but it makes it printable.
- 3pt14159 16y agoSo I ran some tests for a 10 second countdown. I'm pretty sure you are right and my mind changing 13 year old self was wrong. I can do 21 "7"s in 10 seconds (given ok legibility) and 18 "9"s. So it looks like 7 is indeed better.
- ultrasaurus 16y agoStill, starting to write immediately and then worrying about optimization while the process was running was the right solution.