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Would be great if someone could add some actual ''details'' about how this method works - especially as the article claims it is very simple. [[User:Gandalf61|Gandalf61]] 08:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC) |
Would be great if someone could add some actual ''details'' about how this method works - especially as the article claims it is very simple. [[User:Gandalf61|Gandalf61]] 08:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC) |
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:I just added an "example", except that it's way too long, and I gave up before the answer was actually reached, because it's just so tedious. (Simple, but tedious.) If someone adds a proof that this method actually works, without any [http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Miscellaneous/Pearce/Lectures/Ch8_6.html ad-hoc final steps] or [http://www.math.sfu.ca/histmath/India/12thCenturyAD/Chakravala.html handwaving], I might add an implementation in [[C (programming language)|C]]; but if we can't prove that it will terminate, there's not much point in pursuing that route. --[[User:Quuxplusone|Quuxplusone]] 22:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC) |
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Would be great if someone could add some actual details about how this method works - especially as the article claims it is very simple. Gandalf61 08:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
- I just added an "example", except that it's way too long, and I gave up before the answer was actually reached, because it's just so tedious. (Simple, but tedious.) If someone adds a proof that this method actually works, without any ad-hoc final steps or handwaving, I might add an implementation in C; but if we can't prove that it will terminate, there's not much point in pursuing that route. --Quuxplusone 22:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)