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Comments and discussion on Valentin's 4th "Then and Now" - Area
01-20-2023, 09:12 AM
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RE: Comments and discussion on Valentin's 4th "Then and Now" - Area
(01-20-2023 01:56 AM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  
Quote:Also the kind request to postpone our results for a few days was an interesting exercise.
... some other person essentially complained that he much preferred to see tentative post after tentative post, refining the solution all the time, and learning from the refining process...
This being so, I'm not sure if the benefits outdo the disadvantages, so perhaps I will reinstate the 2-3 day delay for future problems, or perhaps I won't. What do you think ?

There are disadvantages for both. Respecting his delay avoid to prematurely spoil the game.
But for difficult problems it's sometime nice to see other's attempts to progress toward a solution.
I would say that a 2-3 day delay is fine, it's not excessive, and we can still have the opportunity to share partial results towards a complete solution.
Actually, this is what happened here, Fernando and Werner identified the 'tiny area', Albert and I gave the correct 12-digit result (by different ways) of the main area, and I finally merged everything together.

Also, we should keep in mind that if some of us are can afford to spent a lot of time on a problem each day, it's not necessary the case for everybody.

Quote:I mentioned it in my original solution's post, I quote:
    "Line 1: [...] DIM U is necessary to create variable U here and not inside DEF FNW, where we would fall prey to a well-known system bug."

Sorry, I missed that comment, anyway it was not bad to insist on this bug that not every HP-71B user may know or remember.

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