06-05-2003, 04:13 AM
Mango:
First of all your method is faster than your results. You should leave the computer runing your compiled program alone in the foreground. This way you should reach the long overflow before 4 hours.
And the 1,5 hour could be reached by the program by Rich Geldreich you posted when this challenge started (you said clearly you did'nt write it). I have no patience to check it but it could reach the limits in 1,5 hour as Neo says. Remember i'ts a program ported from the computer bible "The Art of Computer Programming" so it should be good. By the way , could someone explain me how does it work?
Edited:
About speed, don't forget there are AMD processors abe to run 16 bits apps 3 times faster than a P4 1,5...Any speed comparison should be done in the same computer!
First of all your method is faster than your results. You should leave the computer runing your compiled program alone in the foreground. This way you should reach the long overflow before 4 hours.
And the 1,5 hour could be reached by the program by Rich Geldreich you posted when this challenge started (you said clearly you did'nt write it). I have no patience to check it but it could reach the limits in 1,5 hour as Neo says. Remember i'ts a program ported from the computer bible "The Art of Computer Programming" so it should be good. By the way , could someone explain me how does it work?
Edited:
About speed, don't forget there are AMD processors abe to run 16 bits apps 3 times faster than a P4 1,5...Any speed comparison should be done in the same computer!
Antoni