[extropy-chat] Puzzle - Short Tale

[Brian Alexander Lee]

So, what is the algorithm?

BAL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spike" <spike66 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:59 AM
Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Puzzle - Short Tale


> 
> > Spike wrote:
> > > I found an old notebook in which I used to do mathematical
> > > puzzles.  I had found in a commentary that 153 is the smallest
> ...
> > > 
> > > 8th:  24678050, 24678051, 88593477
> > > 
> .
> > > complete loss for how.  OH NO I've grown stuuuupiiiiid!  {8-[  
> > 
> >   Here's a quick (3-minute) algorithm written in Frink (a 
> > programming language of my own design):...
> 
> Ja, the puzzle is that this algorithm is way too
> slow to have been done on a 3.2 mhz computer.  It
> would have taken months to get thru the 8th powers.
> 
> Robert wrote:
> 
> >Reviewing recent comments by Alan and Spike -- you folks had
> >way too much time on your hands...
> 
> So very true.
> 
> But aint it grand?  {8^D  I just love having time for
> reprehensible intellectual idleness.  {8-]  Its what
> I want to do with eternity if I manage to get myself
> uploaded: sit and think.  What else can a program do?
> 
> As it turns out, I rediscovered the algorithm today
> and nailed the rest up thru 14:
> 
> numbers that equal the sum of the 9th power of their digits:
> 
> 146511208, 
> 912985153, 
> 472335975, 
> 534494836
> 
> sum of the 10th powers:  4679307774
> 
> sum of 11th powers:  32164049650,
> 32164049651
> 40028394225,
> 42678290603,
> 44708635679,
> 49388550606,
> 82693916578
> 94204591914,
> 
> 12th:  aint none!
> 
> 13th:  564240140138
> 
> 14th:  281164403359967
> 
> Clearly I didn't do this brute force method, computers
> havent been in existence that long. 
> 
> {8^D  spike (the cheerful idler)
> 
> ps if anyone can think of an application for this
> silliness, do suggest and we can apply for a
> software patent together, assuming you do not
> consider it a sin to patent an algorithm.  This
> one is clever if I say so myself.  {8-]  s
> 
> 
>  
> 
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