Mine works by trying lots of expressions in a breadth-first search and continually raising the bar for closeness of match to generate a series of candidate expressions of ever closer approximation to the target. (see http://mrob.com/pub/ries/index.html) I believe Plouffe's Inverter has a huge database of pre-computed values. It also uses lots of specialized functions, which might clutter the results depending on what you want. I don't know about ISC. I'll take a look... On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:46, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
The common ratios seem to fluctuate by a factor of about 10^-6, for some reason. Apart from that, they are 1.270589 and 0.998300. I tried using the ISC to determine whether they are carefully-selected mathematical constants, but to no avail. They must be random, instead.
(Plouffe's Inverter is suffering from infinite latency, it appears, so I had to use the ISC instead.)
How do these 'inverters' work? Preparation of large lookup tables, which are stored online somewhere?
Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher
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