[r-t] Exhausted search spaces

Mark Davies mark at snowtiger.net
Thu Feb 4 23:36:45 UTC 2010


Could it be that the 1970s search Mr Sullivan refers to was 
tenors-fixed? There are 247,296 such compositions (up to rotation) which 
seems a more reasonable number to print out (although still a lot of pages).

Just 20 milliseconds of 2010-era computer time to generate all those - 
I'd guess that would be a few minutes in the 70s.

MBD




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