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jackWoo! With the 2n[1] combination, my output matches the reference output. There was nothing inherently wrong after all, just n annoying misconfigurations. I can now go home, have some cereal for breakfast(I was going to do some shopping at lunchtime and get a sandwich, but didn't get round to it) and cook dinner for 7ish.
In other news, I type at 60 wpm when I type fast. Which is often faster then I can think. But it's not quite fair because I'm doing two fingered and I'm a bit more accurate when I look at the keyboard as well as the screen, but in real life don't have beeps to tell my when I've made an error, except when it's a big error, like misbuying a fire alarm.
[1] Not that I tried all of them. Some of the time you can tell something is wrong and eliminate up to 2n-1 possibilities at a sroke. But sometimes different failure modes are near impossible to tell apart.
In other news, I type at 60 wpm when I type fast. Which is often faster then I can think. But it's not quite fair because I'm doing two fingered and I'm a bit more accurate when I look at the keyboard as well as the screen, but in real life don't have beeps to tell my when I've made an error, except when it's a big error, like misbuying a fire alarm.
[1] Not that I tried all of them. Some of the time you can tell something is wrong and eliminate up to 2n-1 possibilities at a sroke. But sometimes different failure modes are near impossible to tell apart.
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Date: 2005-11-25 05:10 pm (UTC)*worries*
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Date: 2005-11-25 05:23 pm (UTC)Just don't ask me to define it: one accepted meaning is first meal of the day, even if not the primary one. I spent most of the first year arguing with tim about that ;)
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Date: 2005-11-25 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-25 05:13 pm (UTC)Are the Ns the same in the first paragraph?
BTW, 2<sup>n</sup> works...
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Date: 2005-11-25 05:26 pm (UTC)That was the general intention. It may not have been meaningful. But, like, you have n things, and no good way of telling which is the problem. Then you find the bit in the docs which says thing1 is wrong. You've halved the problem. But you might end up trying four or eight things instead of trying to deduce which problem did what to the output.
BTW, 2<sup>n</sup> works...
Doh, I just changed that. Too much bb, and too many footnotes. At least is was clear.
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Date: 2005-11-25 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-26 12:51 pm (UTC)Do you really type with two fingers? How often do you use a keyboard?
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Date: 2005-11-27 09:46 pm (UTC)Do you really type with two fingers?
Yeah, I thought that was pretty normal for people who learned to use a computer ad hoc; I didn't realise until I had that I would come to touch type (imperfectly) with them. Do you touch type (ie. with 8/9/10)? Were you taught?
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Date: 2005-11-27 09:55 pm (UTC)It's just that, when I picture someone typing with two fingers, I see someone inexpertly lifting their entire wrist off the keyboard/desk and plonking it down again after a moments thought.
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Date: 2005-11-27 10:00 pm (UTC)LOL. Wonderful description; it is so awkward when someone does that.
Amusing incident: at primary school someone had a kid's electronic thing that had a keyboard -- in alphabetical order. Typing on that made me feel slow enough...
In other news I seem to use my right little finger for 'enter' and my right ring finger for some symbols. I'd genuinely not noticed that.
The trouble was when I first used a keyboard trying to use more fingers was very tedious, and there never seemed an easy path to moving towards that, so I never learnt, and just developed from the plodding method.