This reminds me of an old software development tale. A new team created a replacement for an existing system which ran twice as fast, but gave the wrong answer. A programmer from the older working system said "I can make an arbitrarily fast program if it's not required to produce the correct results". Similarly we can have arbitrarily si…
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This reminds me of an old software development tale. A new team created a replacement for an existing system which ran twice as fast, but gave the wrong answer. A programmer from the older working system said "I can make an arbitrarily fast program if it's not required to produce the correct results". Similarly we can have arbitrarily si…
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