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| back to board | please give me any trick for multiplying bignum ! i got tl and why solution for a(n) is... please give me any trick for multiplying bignum ! i got tl and whysolution for a(n) is...
 
 a(n)=pow(a(n-1),2)-a(n-1)+1;
Mhm....(+) a(n)= a(n-1)^2-a(n-1) + 1
 the way to do the problem is very easy, you see, the first fraction
 is obviusly the least which is 1/2 then you may want a fraction which
 is less than this last one but added with this leads to minimum left,
 so you may want a fraction the more likely to 1/2, this is 1/3 (2+1),
 then with this to add a third fraction, this will be 1/2 + 1/3 + ?,
 could be 1/6, but this leads to get a sum of 1, so the next will be
 1/7 (2*3 + 1), the next will be 1/43 (2*3*7 + 1), the formula you put
 is a pretty factorization of this.
 There's a method to do multiplications on O(n^1.54), but i don't know
 how to do it exactly, you may want to see it in a book.
 Good Luck :)
 Miguel Angel.
 miguelangelhdz@hotmail.com
Re: Mhm....(+) An easyier way to get AC is to represent the bignums in base 1000.There is a lot of time saving an the modifications needed to be done
 when writing the output are easy (just add some 0s if a[j]<100 and a
 [j]<10).
 As for the O(N^1.58) algo, you were supposed to split the numbers
 into two halfs: A=C*10^n/2+D and B=E*10^n/2+F.
 G=(C+D)*(E+F)=C*E+D*F+C*F+D*E
 Then A*B=C*E*10^n+(G-C*E-D*F)*10^n/2+D*F
 We only hav to do 3 multiplications instead of 4 (G,C*E,D*F). In
 order to do these multiplication we use the same algorithm, until
 C,E,D,F on have one digit.
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