Re: A86: Lookup tables


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Re: A86: Lookup tables




No, he is skipping half, plus adding on the duplicates, as he said earlier.

At 08:58 PM 6/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Jimmy Mårdell wrote:
>
>> At 22:47 1998-06-02 EDT, you wrote:
>> >Wouldn't fetching the answer in itself involve multiplication?  I'm
>> >having trouble thinknig of how to explain this, but how would you be able
>> >to know where to look in the table without multiplication?
>>
>> No. It's not that easy though, if you decide to skip half of
>> the lookup table:
>>
>>     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
>>  ---------------------------------
>> 0   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
>> 1      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
>> 2         4  6  8 10 12 14 16 18
>> 3            9 12 15 18 21 24 27
>>
>
>That's not skipping exactly half.  You are skipping a little less than half,
>but close enough. :)
>
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