Re: Challenging problem

Hi Bart!

Bart Demoen schrieb:


Maybe I am looking in the wrong place, or maybe I don't get some of
your contribution(s): I can't see it (neither above nor any place else).
Would you mind reposting your [other] interpretation ? Thanks.

Sure, the salient part is: "I think it didn't." The [other] interpretation is therefore that the nameless entity didn't arrive at that conclusion.



Is the fact that you mention SWI-Prolog explicitly in your message
important ?


Yes.

Is the "default settings" part important ? 

Yes.

Does the same drawback exist for the period/2 predicate - for a range of
smaller integers [hint: try the smallish number 100097] ?


It is not the same drawback.


Are we talking here about a space/time trade-off, an inherent complexity
issue, a limitation of SWI-Prolog (shared by any other Prolog systems
perhaps) ... ?


Yes.

All the best,
Markus.
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