diff --git a/9-regular-expressions/15-regexp-catastrophic-backtracking/article.md b/9-regular-expressions/15-regexp-catastrophic-backtracking/article.md index c1d4040f76..9510971d6a 100644 --- a/9-regular-expressions/15-regexp-catastrophic-backtracking/article.md +++ b/9-regular-expressions/15-regexp-catastrophic-backtracking/article.md @@ -150,11 +150,11 @@ Here's what the regexp engine does: ...And so on. -There are many ways to split a sequence of digits `123456789` into numbers. To be precise, there are 2ⁿ-1, where `n` is the length of the sequence. +There are many ways to split a sequence of digits `123456789` into numbers. To be precise, there are 2^n-1, where `n` is the length of the sequence. -- For `123456789` we have `n=9`, that gives 511 combinations. -- For a longer sequence with `n=20` there are about one million (1048575) combinations. -- For `n=30` - a thousand times more (1073741823 combinations). +- For `123456789` we have `n=9`, that gives 256 combinations. +- For a longer sequence with `n=21` there are about one million (1048576) combinations. +- For `n=31` - a thousand times more (1073741824 combinations). Trying each of them is exactly the reason why the search takes so long. pFad - Phonifier reborn

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