Best search algorithm to find condition within a range

[jonas.thornvall at gmail.com]

Den tisdag 7 april 2015 kl. 17:00:53 UTC+2 skrev MRAB:
> On 2015-04-07 15:36, jonas.thornvall at gmail.com wrote:
> > Den tisdag 7 april 2015 kl. 16:30:15 UTC+2 skrev Denis McMahon:
> >> On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:29:59 -0400, Dave Angel wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 04/07/2015 05:44 AM, jonas.thornvall at gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I want todo faster baseconversion for very big bases like base
> >>>> 1 000 000, so instead of adding up digits i search it.
> >>
> >>> How do you know the baseconversion is the bottleneck, if you
> >>> haven't written any Python code yet?
> >>
> >> He doesn't. He doesn't comprehend that as far as a computer is
> >> concerned an integer has no specific 'base', it's only when
> >> presented in a form for humans to read that it gets base
> >> information added in the representation.
> >>
> >> He's making these and other similar errors in the javascript groups
> >> too.
> >>
> >> I suspect he's one of those people that spends his time thinking
> >> up elaborate solutions that he has no idea how to implement as a
> >> response to dreamt up non existent problems.
> >>
> > Bullshit declare two integers in any language one 7 and one 4 and
> > then write x=7+4; if you find a programming language where that does
> > not yield 11 tell me.
> >
> > Integers are internally assumed to be base 10 otherwise you could not
> > calculate without giving the base.
> >
> > All operations on integers addition, subtraction, multiplication and
> > division assume base 10.
> >
> Sorry to say this, but that's nonsense.
> 
> It doesn't matter what base it's working in internally; usually it's
> base 2 (binary), because that's simpler to implement.
> 
> It's only when you're converting from or to text that you need specify
> a base. Humans prefer base 10, so they've make that the default.

No that is not what i am saying, i am saying if you do operations on two integers the machine will assume base 10.