Why Simplicity Pays

'Farmer Jeb' on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:09:16 GMT, sez:

So if I were to increase the complexity of the problem (originally at 1.00) by 25% to 1.25, the complexity of the solution would increase from 1.00 to 2.00. Having realised the error of my ways, I decrease the complexity of the problem back to it's original value 1.00. This represents a decrease of 0.25/1.25 or 20%. That corresponds to a decrease in solution complexity of 50% resulting in a final solution complexity of 1.00...
D'oh!!!! I was setting out to show how you got your maths wrong and I shot myself in the foot!!

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