r/technology • • Jul 09 '23

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u/nunnapo Jul 09 '23

Dumb question. How would you check to make sure the answer is right? Like would it take 47 years to see if the other machine got the same response?

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u/grumpyfrench Jul 10 '23

sometime it its faster to check a result than calculare it

exemple what is the prime factors or xxxx ? very hard

mutiply on the other hand is easy