User talk:Poolala

Improvement: (That )S(that ):S(is )::SS~::SS~:(not )*:SS:S~S(it ):SSS --Ørjan (talk) 10:07, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Busy beaver
Numerals like :*:*:*:*:*:*:* (that's 128) are rather repetitive, so a more efficient way to build large ones is by applying other numerals to each other. (:*)::::^^^^^ That's 2^2^2^2^2 or 2^65536. Then you might try to compress the :'s and ^'s similarly, although I don't think that will help when there's this little room to work within.

Exercise: Continue this process until you have constructed Knuth's up-arrow notation in Underload. ;) --Ørjan (talk) 01:37, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! One of my original approaches was something similar to this, but it took less cycles than my first approach. (This took 160 cycles, my first program took 532)

For 50 character busy beavers, it will most likely help a great deal. Poolala (talk) 03:09, 6 November 2013 (UTC)