Trip Technician wrote:
yes n^n^n would be fine. agree it is connected to factorisation. building a tree of possible expressions is my next angle.
I think building trees of the possible expressions as a couple of other people have suggested is simply a more structured way of doing what you're currnetly doing.
Right now you're throwing darts at the problem space, and hoping that the next one point you hit will be a more optimal solution.
If you enumerate all the expression trees you are just ensuring you don't miss any solutions.
I think the algorithm/hueristic I just posted should get you to the answer quicker though...
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