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Nov 2021
5:51pm, 30 Nov 2021
164 posts
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paulcook
That’s massively impressive.
I know many of the options can be dismissed as farcical but the number of options of visiting each Wainwright is 214! which is unfathomably large.
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Nov 2021
6:06pm, 30 Nov 2021
43,423 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
That 214! is only relevant if you take a very theoretical approach to it, of course. Would anyone not put Nethermost Pike and Dollywaggon next to each other?
(Answering my own question: possibly. I did meet a chap in the Dog & Gun who said he was doing the Wainwrights in alphabetical order and I am pretty sure he was serious. Although this was not all in one outing!)
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Nov 2021
6:06pm, 30 Nov 2021
11,244 posts
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jda
Sure, but there are efficient algorithms that can calculate the optimal route in something like (a multiple of) 2^214 calculations which is infinitesimally small in comparison 
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Nov 2021
6:07pm, 30 Nov 2021
23,230 posts
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Rosehip
That book is on my Christmas list
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Nov 2021
6:24pm, 30 Nov 2021
8,244 posts
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Northern Exile
I wonder how the algorithm accounts for known patches of boggy terrain, minor undulations, runners trods, impassable crags etc
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Nov 2021
6:29pm, 30 Nov 2021
23,204 posts
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Dave A
I wonder how the algorithm accounts for known patches of boggy terrain, minor undulations, runners trods, impassable crags etc
They will use the standard fell runner equation that involves Pi(es) and ale.
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Nov 2021
6:31pm, 30 Nov 2021
8,245 posts
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Northern Exile
Ah, I know what you mean - the "fuck it and run" equation?
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Nov 2021
6:36pm, 30 Nov 2021
23,205 posts
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Dave A
Yes.
I think, from my very non-technical brain point of view, there is a lot that the spreadsheets etc can do. But they won’t be able to match on the ground knowledge of runners and supporters.
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Nov 2021
8:23pm, 30 Nov 2021
2,922 posts
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flyingfinn
NE take care and enjoy. I'm watching the weather for different reasons and both the forecasts for the weekend and my watch flashing a storm warning on the walk back from the pub this evening are posing many questions with regards to kit and travelling fast in high exposed places.
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Nov 2021
9:16pm, 30 Nov 2021
52,935 posts
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Derby Tup
You know it’s serious when the carbo loading in the pub starts on a Tuesday night
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