On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:46:03PM +0200, Martijn wrote:
>Furthermore, one could save the value of for instance the 10 000th
>iteration, and check if a later iteration gets the same value,
>if it does, one knows that the value will never get to 0 anymore.
This is quite unlikely to happen, as there are so many possible values
to choose from! Think 2^(1024^2) (approx.) for a 1024kB FFT -- as you
are only doing a couple of million iterations, the chance of getting a
`loop' quickly becomes extremely slim, and it really isn't worth checking
for.
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