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Oh, this is a great read! I fondly recall a meeting with extremely bright individuals, and several of us were able to deduce the scale on the fly using the Riem
by Darkphibre 7y ago
Oh, this is a great read! I fondly recall a meeting with extremely bright individuals, and several of us were able to deduce the scale on the fly using the Riemann Zeta Function trick. The presenter was not pleased (the deduced number was not exactly complimentary to their messaging).
- gowld 7y agoHow does that work, since in the common case the number of pixels would be rounded to nearest integer? The article explains that this only works if you assume that there are much fewer sales than pixels, so that sales divide pixels.
- Darkphibre 7y agoIf I remember correctly, the metrics were in millions (and clearly rounded to the nearest million). And it wasn't sales data, I believe it had to do with chip design or marketshare (during the design phase of the current generation of consoles).