I’m still skeptical that this algorithm is useful any real-world situation, although I was hoping I might get comments with counter-examples. Even in the examples you gave, you already have another machine that clearly has far more memory than you need to implement the set algorithm but for some reason you have to write this algorithm to run on a toaster and talk to your dramatically more powerful server over the network? I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I hope you can see why I’m skeptical.
I agree that the math puzzle is interesting.
I’m still skeptical that this algorithm is useful any real-world situation, although I was hoping I might get comments with counter-examples. Even in the examples you gave, you already have another machine that clearly has far more memory than you need to implement the set algorithm but for some reason you have to write this algorithm to run on a toaster and talk to your dramatically more powerful server over the network? I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I hope you can see why I’m skeptical.