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Re:I don't know by megablast on Monday March 03, 2014 @08:22PM (#7337846)
> It's not just "I don't know" that is important, but also the next part of the thought: "but I can find out."

This isn't about asking someone else to find out how to do it, this is about solving a problem, which may no solution.

So saying, "but I can find out" it is comically ridiculous.

Consider this, how are you going to solve the traveling salesman problem, for 10,000 nodes on your iPhone in 5 seconds?

I don't know, but I can find out.

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Re:I don't know by icw on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:17PM (#7344824)
Try space-filling curves! http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/mow/mow.html
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Re:I don't know by Jemaclus on Monday March 03, 2014 @09:40PM (#7338100)
Sometimes "that's impossible" or "you can't" is the answer you find out. :)
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