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Subject: Re: Looking for simple brute force solution
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On 1/4/18 4:50 PM, root wrote:
> root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote:
>>
>> We'll see how the case currently running turns out. I only have to work
>> out the solution for four or five cases then use that solution to
>> unravel data for about 420 data sets.
>>
> 
> I was surprised to find that only one solution exists to the problem.
> I let the program run through all cases and it finished in a little
> over 4 minutes. It ran through 3,486,784,401 (3.5B) cases.
> 
> I really don't like the results. I'll have to ponder that before
> continuing.
> 

Due to the rounding issue, one may be a bit better than another, but you 
should be able to replace any running sum by the values that make it up, 
as they should be about equal, as that was part of the definition of 
being a running sum.

If that isn't happening, then you are just running into the issue of an 
under constrained fitting operation, you can get an answer, but it might 
not really mean anything.