Fw: Lightbulb stumper...
Tyler Nally (tnally@iquest.net)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 22:31:50 -0500
At 05:44 PM 10/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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!
With two switches that can be toggled on and off,
these are the possibilities:
switch A B o == on x == off
result 1- o o
2- o x
3- x o
4- x x or 2**2 distinctive results (2 squared)
With three switches, these are the possibilities:
switch A B C o == on x == off
result 1- o o o
2- o o x
3- o x o
4- o x x
5- x o o
6- x o x
7- x x o
8- x x x or 2**3 distinctive results (2 cubed)
Bro "I sure don't believe in Carl Sagan math
in the billions and billions or trillions
and trillions" Tyler
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