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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by hyperbovine on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:40AM (#50005692)
Isn't it possible that all of the integers that have been or will ever be encountered, anywhere, any time, in human history, number less than 2^182? In which case you could argue that integer multiplication is O(1) via LUT :)
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by measurablefunc on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:45AM (#50007246)
Everything is a lookup table in non-standard arithmetic but that's not useful for someone writing the code b/c they don't have access to non-standard integers & have to write an algorithm to reconstruct it.