From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The next exercise
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:17:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt7omf31.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k02tute0.fsf@dataswamp.org
Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:
> > 2^2^43 - 1, right? What's it? It's too large to be the
> > largest known prime number, or I calculated wrong. I don't
> > know. Tell us.
At least I know now it's not a prime, since all integers of the form
2^2^n - 1 are divisible by 5.
> Hint 1: Start with (** 2 10) which is 1024.
> Hint 2: Think computers, not math ...
Is it some kind of Turing test? No, I'm not a computer, I swear.
Hmm, what might I think about it as a computer? 2^2^43-1 is binary
1 1 .....................1
\_______________________/
8 796 093 022 208 digits 1
so as a computer I would no doubt think, oh man, look at these
8 796 093 022 208 digits "1", I wounder what this is about - is it a
prime? But I already answered that. Hmm.
Still too mathematical maybe. Wait - it's the largest number a
calculator using 8 796 093 022 208 binary digits can express.
The horizontal checksum of this binary number is 2^43 - this is not some
kind of "the answer is 42" joke?
I'm not a good computer. I would obviously fail the inverse Turing test
(as a human pretending to be a computer).
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 19:09 The next exercise Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 19:42 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-10 2:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 6:18 ` tomas
2022-12-10 7:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 19:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 19:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 20:19 ` tomas
2022-12-09 20:33 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-09 20:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-09 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-12 1:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-15 22:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 23:17 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-12-16 1:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-17 0:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-18 0:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-20 4:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-11 19:48 ` Andy Moreton
2022-12-12 1:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-12-15 10:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-10 2:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 20:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-12-09 21:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
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