Raza wrote:
anjuna wrote:
Don't you worry about 20, I can't think of a Wiz way to do it yet but that does not necessarily mean that going through 81.000.000.000.000.000 would be slower than the 4 days and 20 hours I spent on the Water Plant.
I'm not sure you realise quite how many combinations that is. For reference, that means that if every human in the world would try 10 million combinations we'd have covered a little under three quarters. Loading 20 pages for each, that's many times more than neopets' total pageload since its creation.
Maybe you don't realise how many can be a *sequence* versus a *combination* and how someone so "mathemetical" can spend 4 days and 20 hours in a Water Plant before *having* to automate something.
Sorry to sound harsh, but sequences are far greater than combinations in numbers alone, and it is not inconceivable someone would have to use such to succeed in a time range less than or equal to the plot end time.
On that note, if one has millions of sequence OR combination, the TIME to find such still has to be finite. It can be slower or faster depending. In a Neopets plot, millions of sequences + millions of minds (+ ONE PROGRAMMER LOL)
still equals = finding that answer in a MUCH shorter amount of time than THEORETICALLY.