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So the goal wasn’t to find a new and more expensive method for figuring out an answer when you can examine the oracle. The idea was to show that an “impossible” problem isn’t really that impossible given some thought about the algorithm and the computing power easily accessible today.

The impetus for doing this was though a real discussion when we were debating whether to do an analysis to identify some constants, or just to brute force comparisons. At what point was the analysis faster? One thing led to another and next thing I know I was learning CUDA...