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Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler
kpearson writes "Distributed.net's 8-year-old OGR-25 distributed computing project has just proven conclusively that the predicted shortest 25-mark Golomb ruler is optimal. 'The total length of the ruler is 480, with marks at positions: 0 12 29 39 72 91 146 157 160 161 166 191 207 214 258 290 316 354 372 394 396 431 459 467 480. (This ruler may alternatively be expressed in terms of the distance between those positions, which is how dnetc displays them: 12-17-10-33-19-...).' 124,387 people participated in the project and two people found the shortest ruler, one on October 10, 2007 and the other on March 24, 2008."
It means the optimum ruler is Gollum.
But you can't prove that, which proves his point.
My new yumiz ruler is perfectly calibrated in emh's and is 14.667 long. Now I'm going to go measure something like the how many pins can fit on one you guy's heads...
You just reminded me of......
Ah, Kryten; just thinking. [Rapidly] Assuming of course we're not dealing with five-dimensional objects in a basic Euclidean geometric universe and given the essential premise that all geo-mathematics is based on the hideously limiting notion that one plus one equals two, and not as Astemeyer correctly postulates that one and two are in fact the same thing observed from different precepts, (Pulls a "nerdy" grimace, and loudly exhales through his nose.) the theoretical shape described by Siddus must therefore be a poly-dri-doc-deca-wee-hedron-a-hexa-sexa-hedro-adicon-a-di-bi-dolly-he-deca-dodron. (Pulls the same face, exhales a second time.) Everything else is poppycock. Isn't that so?
I was expecting you to measure the shit with a Golomb ruler. Oh well.
Pfff, 25-mark. Wake me up when they get the 26-mark.
// MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
The sumbitch spends most of his time in a dark cave.
And what the hell would he measure anyway? Not like he has any windows for drapes, my precious.
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A forum!? You can take your fancy Web 2.0 "community" fad elsewhere. We've got Golomb rulers to discuss here!
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a few lines from Python would say
Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
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