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mfoc

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    Comment #44919907

    Thank you.

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    Comment #44918696

    I had noticed it before. The response by AnotherGoodName makes it clear to me now why.

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    Comment #44918670

    That makes perfect sense. Thank you. To finish it off (skipping even numbers)... 546n + 247 is always divisible by 13. 546n + 249 is always divisible by 3.

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    Comment #44918281

    When choosing rows = 4000 and columns = 546, an interesting pattern emerges. For all integers n ≥ 0, the ranges [243 + (n * 546)] to [249 + (n * 546)] inclusive appear to contain n…

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    Comment #40685975

    The term 'hallucinations' is by now a common expression when speaking about the shortcomings of LLMs and Generative AI. However, I propose that the expression is misdirected at LLM…

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    Comment #40567161

    The virtue of courage is a habitual strength of the will that enables its possessor to be ready to suffer for a good cause. Excess of this strength is foolhardiness; its defect is …

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    Comment #40242545

    I gave my good faith understanding of what a tree is, but your comment made me think more about it, and to look it up. From chapter two of the book "Algorithmic Graph Theory and Sa…

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    Comment #40238443

    For clarity, in (computer science) graph theory, a tree is a rooted, strict, connected, undirected, acyclic graph. Explanation: rooted: One vertex (also called a node) has been des…

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    Comment #40213448

    Thank you. Great question - you have touched on the key difference between a labeling scheme and an encoding scheme for tree data structures. As mentioned previously, the tree is a…

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    Comment #40212043

    Quote from the article: "A tree-of-objects representation is more difficult to publish in a human-readable form. The objects that comprise the tree tend to all be very different, a…