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Let's find the Fediverse's favorite number, by binary search!
(I'll keep every poll up for 1 hour.)
Second round!
I'm going to change up the notation a little bit. "Between x and y" is an inclusive interval of integer values.
Third round:
Round four!
So far we've been going in the <= branch. Will this trend continue in Round 5 of searching for the Fediverse's favorite number by binary search?
You decide!
We're getting closer now!
Round 9!
This poll will be open for 12 hours so I can go to bed.
What is the Fediverse's favorite positive integer between 0 and 1,000,000? We're using a binary search to find the most popular answer.
Round 10!
We're back on an hourly cadence.
There are quite a few values in each branch that I think might be popular answers for favorite numbers on Fedi.
Let's see which direction we want to take it.
Lucky Round 13.
Fedi's favorite integer surely fits in 1 byte.
Round 14.
Fediverse, in which range does your favorite number lie? Vote below!
I also want to answer a question that keeps coming up:
These are all unsigned integers.
Floating point values and negative numbers are not in scope. Certainly no complex numbers or quaternions, either.
Just a simple binary search over uint32_t values, originally scoped between 0 and ~1 million.
Hope that helps! :3
Anyway, back to voting:
@soatok I know what number it's going to be but I'm still voting the other way to try to get my actual favourite number.
@gsuberland @soatok you're not telling, so whatever you choose, you'll be able to I told you so everyone.
Hmm that might be the actual point.
@gsuberland @f4grx Download the bcrypt implementation from @ryanc and calculate a high cost so it takes like 3 hours per hash trial
@soatok @gsuberland @f4grx the cost parameter on that thing goes all the way up to 99, if you wanna hash until the sun burns out
@soatok @gsuberland @f4grx If Soatok doesn't continue this until we've hit the limit of double precision floating point, I will be disappointed.
@soatok @gsuberland @f4grx I do not believe any was promised an integer
@ryanc @soatok @gsuberland @f4grx If Soatok were to change his mind on the set [1], I'd be utterly disappointed, considering that the poll framing fundamentally requires restricting the space to integers, as I alluded to [2].
Under the given conditions, a sudden change to reals, or another larger set, would effectively invalidate the entire prior search.
I maintain that mathematical rigour is paramount in such consequential endeavours!
[1] https://furry.engineer/@soatok/113794042080702966
[2] https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lunarood/113789357645694281
@lunarood @ryanc @gsuberland @f4grx Yeah I'm not continuing this particular series into the floats
@soatok @ryanc @gsuberland @f4grx I am very glad you are maintaining the scientific rigour of your research!
Of course, I would have preferred if you had preregistered your methodology prior to commencing data gathering, but I don't think this omission completely invalidates the validity and significance of this research 
(Ok, I'm done with the bit. I just had to get it out of my system 
)
@lunarood @soatok @gsuberland @f4grx fine, I'll do floats
@ryanc @lunarood @gsuberland @f4grx whatever floats your boat