alt Hacker NewsI am against statements like:
A: "X people don't know how to do Y"
B: "Why not do Z?"
A: "Z is too easy and boring so they actually added more restrictions to how you are allowed to do Y so that solution doesn't count"
I am against statements like:
A: "X people don't know how to do Y"
B: "Why not do Z?"
A: "Z is too easy and boring so they actually added more restrictions to how you are allowed to do Y so that solution doesn't count"
Maybe I'm not communicating the point clearly. In order to use a table to do the whole multiplication it has to be much larger than the largest number you would want to multiply with it. A lot of the analysis of algorithms, especially multiplication as discussed here, is about astronomically large numbers, so you don't want the existence of an even more astronomically large table as a prerequisite.