Ah yes my bad. i took 8^3 rather thank 2^8^3 which is 16777216 about 16 million. And hmm. how long will it take. Not worth waiting.. Its an exponential algorithm and these things are notorious for the slow speed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Chia "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison E-mail: danielcjh@yahoo.com.sg MSN: danstryder01@yahoo.com.sg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hopkins" To: Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 17:04 Subject: Re: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > So how long would it take? > ************************************************* > Roy Hopkins :-) > > Tauranga > New Zealand > ************************************************* > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Chia" > To: > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:55 PM > Subject: Re: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > > > > Well, the problem presents itself in that there are many, many > combinations. > > > > Lets say we take 24bit colout, Red 8, blue 8, green 8 combination. thats > 512 > > possible colours per pixel. > > > > now lets say we have an avg resolution of 800 x 600. > > > > now that works out to > > 512^480000 combination. no small no. > > > > I am a competitional programmer in school and computers normally hit about > > 100,000,000 loops per second.. So generating all the permuations is kinda > > hard. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Daniel Chia > > > > "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." > > > > - Thomas Edison > > > > E-mail: danielcjh@yahoo.com.sg > > MSN: danstryder01@yahoo.com.sg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: > > To: > > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 15:58 > > Subject: [OT] : Challenging...(another thought) > > > > > > > Wow! this must be good stuff i'm smoking! > > > Imagine this.... > > > there's a limited number of pixels in any monitor, yet it > > > can display any image, so, if you wrote a program to set > > > pixels at every possible colour intensity combination in > > > sequence, eventually you'll get real images!! it could be > > > anything, things that already happened and things that will > > > happen!!and ofcourse a lot of made up things, like a photo > > > of me and john lennon drinking coffe together, it'll be > > > there. what's even more scary, what happens when this > > > sequence eventually runs out? it means any possible and even > > > impossible event that could or could not happend, has > > > already been in the sequence... > > > it means nothing else can happen, you'd think that was > > > infinate, BUT the number of pixels is limited, and so are > > > all possible combinations of this... > > > wierd hey. > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.710 / Virus Database: 466 - Release Date: 23/06/2004 > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads