Vladimir_Nesov comments on How to test your mental performance at the moment? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 November 2009 05:40:27PM 1 point [-]

2, 4, 8, 16 ... etc until you lose track.

The problem is that with a systematic enough approach, verifying that you've memorized the working data at each step until you do, it's possible to keep on going to 2^50 and beyond, losing all day on the activity :-)