However, you can still set Google Alerts for a search like that.
You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
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Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#22Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#23On a faintly related note, I once was calculating partitions, using a relatively inefficient method (memoization: if f(n,k) is the number of distinct ways to express n as the unordered sum of integers no greater than k, then f(n,k) = f(n-k,k) + f(n,k-1)). My computer started to feel the strain in the thousands (this algorithm is O(n^2) in space and time). I then googled for the partition of, say, 1034, which is: 9136…
This is why I love Hacker News. The pure hack value of some comments is mind-blowing.
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#24The double dot indicates that this is a ranged query. 11..22 would be to search for all integers between 11 and 22. The effect is that the search is too broad. The problem is more likely to be that the range search is a mapreduce that performs a search for each item in the range. You can imagine why that's a bad idea, and some aggressive timeouts are probably what stop it from going too far. Plus the numbers in the r…
If this were true, surely it should allow you to use quotes to force it to ignore the "range" operator... http://www.google.com/search?q=%229999999..99999999999999999...
It ignores the quotes a lot of the time. They are less explicit than you may imagine.
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#25On a faintly related note, I once was calculating partitions, using a relatively inefficient method (memoization: if f(n,k) is the number of distinct ways to express n as the unordered sum of integers no greater than k, then f(n,k) = f(n-k,k) + f(n,k-1)). My computer started to feel the strain in the thousands (this algorithm is O(n^2) in space and time). I then googled for the partition of, say, 1034, which is: 9136…
As coincidence would have it, a friend just announced to me that he has written code to compute the number of partitions of 10^12 in 109 seconds.
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#26On a faintly related note, I once was calculating partitions, using a relatively inefficient method (memoization: if f(n,k) is the number of distinct ways to express n as the unordered sum of integers no greater than k, then f(n,k) = f(n-k,k) + f(n,k-1)). My computer started to feel the strain in the thousands (this algorithm is O(n^2) in space and time). I then googled for the partition of, say, 1034, which is: 9136…
It should be pointed out here for everyone else that in general, if you want terms of a well-known integer sequence, OEIS (and the links section for longer tables like that) is a good place to check.
For more general math there's also WolframAlpha.
Eg.: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=partition+1034
They are also quite capable of blowing my mind sometimes. (Try "When will the ISS be visible?" or "coastline length of africa / length of stride")
Re: You can't google 9999999..99999999999999999999999
#27Bing to the rescue: http://www.bing.com/search?q=9999999..9999999999999999999999... Pretty similar URL format eh?
Bing doesn't really come to the rescue -- the X..Y format on Google searches for numbers in a range. Bing seems to just try to find that string as plain text.
Yes, it doesn't hit some strange error page though.
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#28You also cannot google some stuff commonly found in phpBB because of so many hacked sites out there.
Also remember how you used to be able to search for anything up to the 1000th item (10 pages of 100 results). Not anymore for a long time now. Google sucks it all in but won't share and play nice with others.
Why not allow such searches unless a bot is detected (too many pages too quickly, etc.)
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this were true, surely it should allow you to use quotes to force it to ignore the "range" operator... http://www.google.com/search?q=%229999999..99999999999999999...
It ignores the quotes a lot of the time. They are less explicit than you may imagine.
yup, "11..22" still finds all numbers from 11 to 22.
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