Fw: Lightbulb stumper...
"Robert J. Brown" (rj@eli.elilabs.com)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:44:21 -0500
Was that 2^(2^n) or 2^(n^2) switching functions of n inputs? Hmm...
I don't remember! Oh well, if it is 2^(n^2), [which I think is the
real case], then there are 2^(3^2) = 2^9 = 512 which makes the real
answer not 16 million, but 512^3 = 134,217,728 possible combinations,
which is 8 times worse!
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