Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:41:53 12/19/01
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On December 19, 2001 at 17:32:24, Gustavo Pereira wrote: >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. Did you do this by assuming that X!/Y! is equal to (X-Y)! ? I don't think that's the case. The best simplification I could find is Problem = 1 - ( 16777215! / (16746008! * 16777216 ^ 31207) )
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