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by rockdoe 4492 days ago
Doesn't explain why it's not 1, 1, 1 or 1, 5, 49.
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thaumasiotes 4492 days ago
It does, you're just not paying attention. The comment appears over the function that uses those variables; it's not 1,1,1 because they want to hit 1 only once in the sequence 1,3,5,7,9,25,27,49,81,125, etc.

It doesn't explain why it's not 3,1,7 or 3,5,1, but that's because there is no reason for that.

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rockdoe 4492 days ago
The full comment in the source explains it fine, but that's not what I'm replying to; who's not paying attention here?

The abbreviated quote I was replying to just confuses things by leaving out critical parts.

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