Re: My prime counting formula, other prime counting

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_aurigae.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:01:08 GMT

In sci.math, James Harris
<jstevh@msn.com>
 wrote
on 29 Aug 2004 05:44:42 -0700
<3c65f87.0408290444.3a552488@posting.google.com>:
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@aurigae.athghost7038suus.net> wrote in message news:<esa702-r4t.ln1@lexi2.athghost7038suus.net>...
>> In sci.math, James Harris
>> <jstevh@msn.com>
>> wrote
>> on 28 Aug 2004 11:18:08 -0700
>> <3c65f87.0408281018.4728f9c2@posting.google.com>:
>> > For over two years I've talked about my prime counting discovery only
>> > to face a strange apparent lack of interest from mainstream
>> > mathematicians and outright hostility from mostly sci.math posters who
>> > tend to try and claim my work is not new.
>>
>> [rest snipped]
>>
>> New or not, Christian Bau's algorithm, as far as I can tell,
>> creams the heck out of yours. :-P
>
> Oh, so now it's suddenly his? Oh yeah, you're that liar who claimed I
> entered some contest you created, where you put up a webpage claiming
> that I had entries in this contest when in fact my fastest program so
> badly beats all on your page that it is clear that you're not only a
> liar but a bad one.

I'd have to rerun the tests. As it is, even if your newest
algorithm beats the entrants therein (and it probably
does), Christian Bau's algorithm still beats yours. :-P My
reference machine is no longer my fastest one, for starters
-- I've acquired an Athlon XP1600 with OpenGL capability.
So not only can I rerun the entrants faster, I can also
display them with texturing! :-) ;-) :-)

Though you're right in that it's not his; he's implemented
someone else's work and I don't know the details. But your
work isn't exactly original, either; it looks like a variant
of Legendre's work. (I also reimplemented Legendre's work,
as a submission/comparison entry. Once I got the fiddlybits
right it worked reasonably well.)

Were I to redo the contest I might require everyone's code in
Java. :-) But I'm not sure I'm all that interested, and I
doubt many are paying that much attention to this little corner
of the World Wide Weave, especially with New Yorkers gearing up
for the most exciting event in decades to, erm, hit them -- namely,
the Republican Convention. :-)

Then again, if everyone starts screaming "I WANT A REMATCH!" :-)
I might consider it. (At this point I rather doubt it.)

And of course I'm not a peer-reviewed journal. Much ado about nothing,
methinks!

>
> And in fact Christian Bau just did his own implementation from the
> work of Lagarias, Odlyzko and others, but now you--a noted liar--claim
> that it's *his* algorithm.
>
> You're still a bad liar.
>
> Why don't you ask Christian Bau if he's written up his work and
> presented it to a journal.
>
> If he's done such a great job he should get some congratulations from
> the others in the field that he's supposedly IMPROVED UPON.

Only if others haven't already done so.

>
> Now then, when Bau gets some congratulations from Odlyzko or Lagarias
> you come back you punk, and maybe you'll get better treatment.
>
> Have you fixed your webpage so that it no longer lies about that
> supposed competition?
>

I might remove it entirely; there's not much point in
annoying you anymore and I could use the space for other
things. :-) However, there's no hurry; I'll probably work
on an entire redesign of my webpages over Labor Day.

>
> James Harris 

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