Searching for something that is not there!!

Pls provide mathematical algorithm for finding something which is not there.

K10xbye

Things that ARE there are always in the last place you look for them. Therefore, if you can figure out where the last place is, then all things that are not in that place are not there.

I think this means that nothing is there, but I can't be bothered to connect all the dots.

1 + 2 * 3 / 4 % 5 ^ 6

wlcm

I before E, except after C.

/thread

infinity - infinity = 0

If you want search for something that isn't there, then you should have joined the army a few years ago.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy_Hiker

Things that ARE there are always in the last place you look for them.

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This is a truism, simply because once you find it you stop looking. /logic

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Originally Posted by max

This is a truism, simply because once you find it you stop looking. /logic

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That really does make sense. :thumb:

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Originally Posted by EntityX

infinity - infinity = 0

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Seeing as infinity has no bounds, it must seem that:

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infinity - infinity = infinity

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Originally Posted by visualAd

Pls provide mathematical algorithm for finding something which is not there.

K10xbye

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If it's not there then don't look for it in the first place and you'll save yourself the trouble of looking for something that's not there.

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Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer

This is a truism, simply because once you find it you stop looking. /logic

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Here's another truism for you: My post went over your head.

However, I sometimes look in a few other places after finding something just so that it WASN'T in the last place that I looked.

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Originally Posted by EntityX

If it's not there then don't look for it in the first place and you'll save yourself the trouble of looking for something that's not there.

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U cee, my problem is. that it might not, not be there. Therefore, I must search to confirm it is not there.

When to stop searching? :(

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Originally Posted by visualAd

When to stop searching? :(

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Uh... when the dog goes to sleep?

http://www.nirsoft.net/blog/uploaded...og2-792835.png

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

Here's another truism for you: My post went over your head.

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So if your post went over his head then if he were to look up at the right time he would see your post passing above his head.

Oh no, now we've sunk into literalism.

You're like a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there.

How do you search for something that isn't there? By looking for something else. Happens to me all the time. I go looking for my keys, I find my wallet, phone and glasses instead. I seem to find any and everything else but the object being sought.

-tg

I didn't know that there was something there.