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Sep 6, 2022 at 1:20 history edited dfeuer CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mar 18, 2019 at 1:24 comment added dfeuer @ØrjanJohansen, the switch from A to B was a no-brainer, because it has the same number of bytes. As for how they compare ... my intuition isn't great. Certainly, though, getting a fast start is very helpful for obtaining results whose size is easy to bound (below) by well-known functions like A. Thanks for the improvement; I actually considered the S(S n) change alone before I realized there was free Indian buffet lunch to be had.
Mar 17, 2019 at 21:36 comment added Ørjan Johansen My intuition btw is that all of these functions are "about the same size" for each m plus or minus 1, once you get into the incomprehensibly large territory, so it's all about getting there as fast as possible and then have room to heap on more #Zs.
Mar 17, 2019 at 21:29 comment added Ørjan Johansen Looks good, although if we're tweaking the function, I think this gets out of the ballpark faster - Z#Z#Z#Z is already humongous, which makes up for the one byte longer type family.
Mar 17, 2019 at 7:39 history edited dfeuer CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mar 17, 2019 at 6:49 comment added dfeuer @ØrjanJohansen, I've made a fairly substantial improvement; I'd really appreciate if you could double check that I haven't goofed up the calculation somewhere.
Mar 17, 2019 at 6:48 history edited dfeuer CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mar 15, 2019 at 12:37 history edited dfeuer CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mar 15, 2019 at 3:34 comment added Ørjan Johansen While you were first editing, I discovered A(m,1) was never bigger than A(A(m,0),0), and was about to remark on it, but then you'd just optimized to the point where the options were equal. (Also m+1 is never bigger than A(m,0).)
Mar 15, 2019 at 3:30 comment added Ørjan Johansen It's the exact same value but saves one byte, and changing the datatype to ? saves the other, leaving room for the extra #Z.
Mar 15, 2019 at 2:21 comment added dfeuer Either way, the extra #Z at the end is most welcome.
Mar 15, 2019 at 2:20 comment added dfeuer @ØrjanJohansen, is stacking up Zs at the front better than starting with S(S Z)#S Z, or the same?
Mar 14, 2019 at 23:33 comment added Ørjan Johansen One more #Z
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