Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage

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This is pretty hilarious, Colin. If only DB usage were more fungible.

You're kind of like a shark when you smell blood. Is it the security mindset?

You're kind of like a shark when you smell blood. Is it the security mindset?

Not really -- it's more a getting-irritated-when-people-do-thing-badly mindset. I can do better; therefore they should do better. :-)

EDIT: On second thought, maybe there is an aspect of security mindset here. One of the assumptions I find to be very useful in dealing with security is the bad guys are at least as smart as I am. It's not very far from here to saying "the Amazonians working on SimpleDB should be at least as smart as me".

Are you using Jon Borwein's experimental math packages for, say fractionalising the numbers or finding formulas, or some of your own routines you've rolled on your own?

The rational reconstruction was just me throwing the values at Maple's convert/parfrac and looking at the convergents for sensible values. The rest was simply looking at the numbers and noticing (eventually) what 2 N^3, 20 N^2, and 80 N looked like.

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