And you think no one would have noticed such a thing before.
Is a possibility...especially since I can find no reference to it or why it won't work.
I can pretty much hint to you that such a thing can't really be done in log base 2 of n time in the sense that I believe I can prove that
This is a joke right? Why in the world should the base have a damn thing to do with the algorithm? A number is a number last time I checked. any algorithm that did that would have to involve none of the basic
four arithmetic operations on the numbers in question. (Algorithms involving no arithmetic on the numbers are still possible, but intuitively quite unlikely.)
Sorry, I don't follow your reasoning here at all. Could you clarify? As far as I am concerned if it could be done w/ a neural network, or boolean algebra (course if no arithmetic ops no logic I guess), or even a fuzzy algorithm (the original impetus to this line, I was looking at "close enough" algorithms for a robot project I am in the middle of. ) would be ok by me. Seems to me though that if one looks at the results of the operation one could glean some sort of magnitude info out of the errors...
Perry