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Category: Off The Deep End • Quantum Basterdizations • Quantum Computing
Posted on: April 6, 2009 5:49 PM, by Dave Bacon
Scott the optimizer asks a question on a wim:
Come up with a catchy name for growth rates of the form 2^(n^&alpha) , 0<&alpha<1.I thought the answer was obvious: "probably in BQP."
update: does html superscript not work in a blockquote? I guess the answer is yes.
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I think you want that to read 2^(n^alpha) instead of 2(n^alpha). I was wondering what the mystery was until I checked out the link!
Posted by: Earl | April 7, 2009 4:43 AM
Thanks Earl, I can't seem to get the html superscript to work in blockquotes.
Posted by: Dave Bacon | April 7, 2009 11:21 AM
That is weird.
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Posted by: David | April 8, 2009 12:20 PM
But can I just super it outside of the blockquote?
Posted by: David | April 8, 2009 12:22 PM
OK, last comment. 'seriously' was supposed to be super in a block quote, and 'super' was supposed to be super in regular text. I previewed comment 4, and it was super'd, but when I posted it, it didn't get it. So, my guess is that your content management system has something against the sup tag.
Posted by: David | April 8, 2009 12:26 PM
David: It's not just the <sup%gt; tag that gets hit. If you preview any comment which includes HTML code, the code is converted to text as advertised. But if you then post the comment, the already converted text--not the original HTML code--gets run through the converter, and you lose the formatting.
Posted by: Eric Lund | April 8, 2009 12:52 PM
And you just saw why my workaround of skipping the preview is dangerous: I typed a % instead of & in the code for a greater than symbol, so it didn't render.
Posted by: Eric Lund | April 8, 2009 12:54 PM
So, without supering?
Posted by: David | April 8, 2009 1:07 PM
That should have said, 'without previewing'. Either way, not previewed, tagged 'supering' with sup.
Clogging dabacon's comments section. Priceless.
Posted by: David | April 8, 2009 1:09 PM