ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Superstrong approximation

Superstrong approximation is like guessing a number that is really, really close to the real answer, but not exactly right. Imagine you're playing a guessing game where someone tells you a number they're thinking of between 1 and 100. You guess 50, but they tell you it's actually 48. You're pretty close, but not perfect.

Now, let's say you're playing a more advanced version of the game where the person tells you a really big number, like a million. But instead of just guessing once and getting one answer back, you have to make a whole bunch of guesses in a row. And instead of guessing the exact number, you have to give a range of numbers that you think the real answer is in.

This is where superstrong approximation comes in. If your guesses are super close to the real answer, even if they're not exactly right, you can save a lot of time and energy in the guessing game. It's kind of like if you were trying to find a needle in a haystack. You could search every single piece of hay individually, but if you had a metal detector that could only tell you if you were close to the needle or not, you could save a lot of time by just searching in the areas where the metal detector beeps loudest.

Superstrong approximation is like having a metal detector for really big numbers. It lets you make educated guesses about where the answer is without having to check every single possibility. This is really useful for things like computer programming and cryptography, where you're dealing with huge numbers and need to find patterns or solutions quickly.