> (Yes, I know the original version wasn't claimed to be optimized, but it > was crying to be optimized...) >
Yes. This is a valuable addition to the thread. Thanks for taking the time. Reminds me of when Tim Peters used to swing by in the early days of edu-sig and optimize the hell out of my algorithms. I just agreed to teach Python to 8th graders for 9 weeks (one session per week) in my daughter's school, starting in November. There's a good chance I'll be using this phi stuff. Mine original draft makes sense to set the stage, cuz the reasoning is so dang primitive. Yours adds a layer of sophistication more reflective of how real world programmers learn to squeeze the most out of their cycles. Of course all of this requires temporarily ignoring the fact that algebraic methods give us a way to compute phi as simply (1 + math.sqrt(5))/2.0. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
