[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 27 Mar 2002 at 22:43, Eugene Leitl wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I don't recall ever having read of this type of structure before, > > > but it seems so obvious that I'm sure it's been discussed before. > > > So is there a name for it? Does anyone use it? has it been > > > shown to be utterly worthless? > > > > You don't mean something like this: > > http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/Gnews.html do you? > > > > Yeah, I think what I was describing was more or less what > they call a hypercube, or maybe just a cube.
Nope. What you've described doesn't have the properties of any n-dimensional cube. Sketch of proof: in an n-dimensional cube, the maximal number of steps to another node is n-1, so the dimension of your cube would have to be 4. A 4-cube has 16 nodes. You have a million. QED. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
