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Subject: Re: Who knows the answer of this:

Author: Gustavo Pereira

Date: 14:32:24 12/19/01

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On December 19, 2001 at 16:57:46, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>Problem = 1 - ( 16777216! / (16746008! * 16777216 ^ 31208) )
>
>16777216 = Number of records in my hashtable
>31208    = Number of nodes searched
>
>Windows calculator says BOOM.
>
>If Problem > 0.5 then I've spend 15 hours debugging for nothing :-)

If you simplify you get

1- (31208!/16777216^31208)

Now, 31208/16777216 is the biggest term in the division, which is 0.00186014
and the other 31207 multiplications are smaller.
So your result is as close to 1 as possible.

• Oooppss... my mistake (NT) Gustavo Pereira 15:01:41 12/19/01
• Re: Who knows the answer of this: Uri Blass 14:53:30 12/19/01
• Re: Who knows the answer of this: Roy Eassa 14:41:53 12/19/01

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