24 Jul
2013
24 Jul
'13
2:05 p.m.
From: Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com>
Execution halts with "variable unassigned" or whatever --- trick question? WFL Doh! Editing problem. Fixed below:
Heh, here's a puzzle: take a pool of random positive, reduced rational numbers. Repeatedly Take out five of them at random, q, r, s, t, u. x = (q r + s t) / u Replace a random member of the pool with x in reduced form. How fast does the number of bits in the pool grow?
--Steve