From bec087c3855f1641ac3681d56c9f8247aa556d2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrien Hopkins Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:44:29 -0500 Subject: Add option to show logarithmic RC This makes finding the RC of prime powers multiplication instead of exponentation, which is much easier to do mentally. --- README.org | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.org') diff --git a/README.org b/README.org index 9a4a519..4fb5e3f 100644 --- a/README.org +++ b/README.org @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ This number measures how easy it is to work with powers of /n/ in radix /r/ - th (The exact value for both of these is \(\textrm{MPM}(r, n^e) / n^e\) - the RC simply condenses all the powers into a single number.) The Radix Info Script shows the complexity for all of the base's prime factors, not every number, in order to keep the output reasonably small. The regular complexity of a product of prime powers will be smaller than the largest of the multiplicands' complexities - prime powers are the worst case. + +If the ~-l~ argument is used, the program will display the base-2 logarithm of the complexities. This means that you can calculate the complexity of prime powers by multiplying by the power, instead of exponentiating (hard to do mentally!). ** Copyright & Contact Info radix_info: gives some information about number radices Copyright (C) 2023 Adrien Hopkins -- cgit v1.2.3