Pete's Log: the answer
Entry #884, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
I have decided that the answer, basically, to everything, is binary search. So what this means, in the long run, is that 42 must somehow be related to binary search. I'll need to work on discovering the exact relationship between the two.
Just finished my second viewing of Shanghai Noon. What a brilliant film. And Lucy Liu as definitely very attractive. Oh yeah.
But the real news is that I've spent very little time on algorithms. I think total time spent actually working on algorithms is about 15 or 20 minutes. I've gotten one of three problems worked out. So I'm doing ok, I guess. Tomorrow's gonna be busy though, since I'll need to finish up algorithms and do a bunch of related work research for mona. And see 2001. So I think what I shall do now is read over the remaining two problems again and hope that having them fresh in my mind will allow my brain to do that weird thing where I wake up with a solution to one or both of them. Not a great strategy, but it's worked before for this kinda stuff. Oh, and the answer to the one problem did involve a binary search. B1: apply a binary search, B2: set of points. jah, man.