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Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function
Date 2016-04-25 19:39 +1200
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Derek Klinge wrote:
> Also, it seems to me if the goal is to use the smallest value of n to get a
> particular level of accuracy, changing your guess of N by doubling seems to
> have a high chance of overshoot.

If you want to find the exact n required, once you overshoot
you could use a binary search to narrow it down.

-- 
Greg

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Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function Derek Klinge <schilke.60@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 20:12 -0700
  Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-04-25 19:39 +1200
    Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 14:45 +0100
    Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function Derek Klinge <schilke.60@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 14:35 +0000
    Re: Optimizing Memory Allocation in a Simple, but Long Function Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 10:54 +0100

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