{"id":29625,"date":"2016-01-10T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=29625"},"modified":"2016-01-22T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:41:30","slug":"math-genome-fun-2-upb-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/math-genome-fun-2-upb-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Genome Fun 2, UPB and beyond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow-on from the original &#8220;Math Genome Fun&#8221; thread\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/math-genome-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to test out GAs on a bigger problem, the old one was at the boundary of home computation for an exhaustive search (OMD I said &#8220;search!&#8221; get on that Mung) &#8211; but I&#8217;m going to propose a *much* bigger search \/ smaller target.<\/p>\n<p>Friends, you target is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi\" target=\"_blank\">Pi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen Pi because of its qualities, being irrational and transcendental you cannot describe it in an equation, only approximate it.<\/p>\n<p>Our target is the first 150 digits of Pi.<\/p>\n<p>Our vocabulary is the same numbers and operators as before:\u00a0[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,+,-,*,\/], but this time they can all be used as often as required and the genome can be anywhere from 1 to 1000 characters in length.<\/p>\n<p>The design approximation is now harder due to the decimal place and the absence of zeros in our vocabulary (but there&#8217;s quite a few in Pi).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done no computation on this myself, can a GA find that proverbial needle in a haystack?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow-on from the original &#8220;Math Genome Fun&#8221; thread\u00a0here I think it&#8217;s time to test out GAs on a bigger problem, the old one was at the boundary of home computation for an exhaustive search (OMD I said &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/math-genome-fun-2-upb-and-beyond\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}