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How can I reduce the amount of storage needed for a gravitational n-body simulation?
I am currently attempting to create a gravitational n-body simulation using a modified Barnes-Hut algorithm, to be more amicable to GPU computation. This is primarily as a learning project. My goal is ...
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Does storing plain text data take up less space than storing the equivalent message in binary?
As a web developer I have very little understanding of binary data. If I take the sentence "Hello world.", convert it to binary, and store it as binary in an SQL database, it seems like the 1s and ...
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Is saving disk space a valid reason to forgo migrating to a standard text format (e.g. JSON)?
A while ago I asked a question about custom text data formats, instead of using existing tools such as XML, JSON, YAML, etc. Now, in favor of converting our custom format to a relational database and ...
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Estimation of space is required to store 275305224 of 5x5 MagicSquares? [closed]
Here are some examples of 5x5 Magic Squares found by some good solvers : Magic Square Generator by Marcel Roos this program state using 2.4GHz Intel takes about 95 hours to generate all solutions. ...
