xthexder@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•It gets better the longer it runs
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1 year agoA few calculations:
- There are 9592 prime numbers less than 100,000. Assuming the test suite only tests numbers 1-99999, the accuracy should actually be only 90.408%, not 95.121%
- The 1 trillionth prime number is 29,996,224,275,833. This would mean even the first 29 trillion primes would only get you to 96.667% accuracy.
- The density of primes can be approximated using the Prime Number Theorem:
1/ln(x)
. Solving99.9995 = 100 - 100 / ln(x)
for x givese^200000
or7.88 × 10^86858
. In other words, the universe will end before any current computer could check that many numbers.
We got nerd sniped at almost the exact same time, but approached this in very different ways. I applaud your practical approach, but based on what I calculated, you should stop now. It will never reach 99.999%