The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
With computer components growing more expensive by the minute, its critical to save as much computing power as possible for the functions you really use.
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