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Define $||n||$ to be the complexity of $n$, the smallest number of ones needed to write $n$ using an arbitrary combination of addition and multiplication. The set $\mathscr{D}$ of defects, differences $\delta(n):=||n||-3\log_3 n$, is known…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Harry Altman , Juan Arias de Reyna

The complexity $\Vert n\Vert$ of a natural number is the least number of $1$ needed to represent $n$ using the 5 symbols $(, ), *, +, 1$. A natural number $n$ is called stable is $\Vert 3^kn\Vert =\Vert n\Vert +3k$. For each natural number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Juan Arias de Reyna

Define $|n|$ to be the complexity of $n$, the smallest number of 1's needed to write $n$ using an arbitrary combination of addition and multiplication. John Selfridge showed that $|n|\ge 3\log_3 n$ for all $n$. Define the defect of $n$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Harry Altman , Joshua Zelinsky

Define $\|n\|$ to be the complexity of $n$, the smallest number of ones needed to write $n$ using an arbitrary combination of addition and multiplication. John Selfridge showed that $\|n\|\ge 3\log_3 n$ for all $n$, leading this author and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Harry Altman

Define $\|n\|$ to be the complexity of $n$, the smallest number of ones needed to write $n$ using an arbitrary combination of addition and multiplication. John Selfridge showed that $\|n\|\ge 3\log_3 n$ for all $n$. Based on this, this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Harry Altman

Define $\|n\|$ to be the complexity of $n$, the smallest number of ones needed to write $n$ using an arbitrary combination of addition and multiplication. John Selfridge showed that $\|n\| \ge 3\log_3 n$ for all $n$. Define the defect of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Harry Altman

We present three algorithms to compute the complexity $\Vert n\Vert$ of all natural numbers $ n\le N$. The first of them is a brute force algorithm, computing all these complexities in time $O(N^2)$ and space $O(N\log^2 N)$. The main…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-22 J. Arias de Reyna , J. van de Lune

The integer complexity $f(n)$ of a positive integer $n$ is defined as the minimum number of 1's needed to represent $n$, using additions, multiplications and parentheses. We present two simple and faster algorithms for computing the integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Qizheng He

We consider a problem first proposed by Mahler and Popken in 1953 and later developed by Coppersmith, Erd\H{o}s, Guy, Isbell, Selfridge, and others. Let $f(n)$ be the complexity of $n \in \mathbb{Z^{+}}$, where $f(n)$ is defined as the…

Let $\|n\|$ stand for the integer complexity of the number $n$, i.e. for the least number of $1$'s needed to write $n$ using arbitrary many additions, multiplications, and parentheses. The two-sided inequality $3\log_3 n\leq\|n\|\leq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Sergei Konyagin , Kristina Oganesyan

We show that there exist infinitely many $n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$ such that for any constant $\epsilon > 0$, any deterministic algorithm to solve $k$-\textsf{SAT} for $k \geq 3$ must perform at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ali Çivril

We consider representing of natural numbers by expressions using 1's, addition, multiplication and parentheses. $\left\| n \right\|$ denotes the minimum number of 1's in the expressions representing $n$. The logarithmic complexity $\left\|…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Juris Čerņenoks , Jānis Iraids , Mārtiņš Opmanis , Rihards Opmanis , Kārlis Podnieks

In this paper, we focus on the problem of existence and computing of small and large stable models. We show that for every fixed integer k, there is a linear-time algorithm to decide the problem LSM (large stable models problem): does a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Miroslaw Truszczynski

Following Stolarsky, we say that a natural number n is flimsy in base b if some positive multiple of n has smaller digit sum in base b than n does; otherwise it is sturdy. We develop algorithmic methods for the study of sturdy and flimsy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Trevor Clokie , Thomas F. Lidbetter , Antonio Molina Lovett , Jeffrey Shallit , Leon Witzman

Deep learning (DL) has had unprecedented success and is now entering scientific computing with full force. However, current DL methods typically suffer from instability, even when universal approximation properties guarantee the existence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Matthew J. Colbrook , Vegard Antun , Anders C. Hansen

The normalized substring complexity $\delta$ of a string is defined as $\max_k \{c[k]/k\}$, where $c[k]$ is the number of \textit{distinct} substrings of length $k$. This simply defined measure has recently attracted attention due to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gregory Kucherov , Yakov Nekrich

The complexity $f(n)$ of an integer was introduced in 1953 by Mahler & Popken: it is defined as the smallest number of $1$'s needed in conjunction with arbitrarily many +, * and parentheses to write an integer $n$ (for example, $f(6) \leq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Christopher E. Shriver

Since many real-world problems arising in the fields of compiler optimisation, automated software engineering, formal proof systems, and so forth are equivalent to the Halting Problem--the most notorious undecidable problem--there is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Cristian S. Calude , Michael A. Stay

The Euclidean k-means problem is arguably the most widely-studied clustering problem in machine learning. While the k-means objective is NP-hard in the worst-case, practitioners have enjoyed remarkable success in applying heuristics like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Abhratanu Dutta , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan , Alex Wang

We consider the ILP Feasibility problem: given an integer linear program $\{Ax = b, x\geq 0\}$, where $A$ is an integer matrix with $k$ rows and $\ell$ columns and $b$ is a vector of $k$ integers, we ask whether there exists…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Dušan Knop , Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna
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