Scripting competition

[Andre Garzia]

I keep forgetting integer limits, not that I do much math in my
projects. Most of my math stuff was done as exercise in lisp or scheme
where I had no such problems.

Now that I am aware (Again) of such limits, I look forward for the
next competition, this time, my code will not overflow! (it will
indeed run so slowly that your clothes will come out of fashion by the
time it ends, but it will run)

:D

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jerry J <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:
> On May 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote:
>
>> What I think is really significant about what Jerry did is that it
>> demonstrates how because numbers in Rev are really "strings" that you can
>> perform math calculations on, and ability to interchangeably treat a chunk
>> as numeric or string (due to the lack of typing), Rev is able to transcend
>> the limitations of the math processor of a machine!
>
> That really is the whole point, and Mark Wieder and Brian Yennie also solved
> it that way. I had a long commute today and I was thinking about how the
> inner loop had to go backwards, and the answers had to be created by
> stuffing chars before strings. So, in order to use repeat for each, and to
> stuff chars after the strings (which is usually faster), I figure why not
> have the numbers all backwards (LSD first) and then just reverse the answer
> once at the end? Well it does speed things up a little. Into your message
> box:
> go URL "http://jhjensen.com/calcFibsBack.rev"
>
> However, its even more confusing to read and figure out what's going on. I
> think, actually, if this was production code, I'd leave it forwards in case
> I ever had to modify it. That is one big advantage of Rev, after all. If all
> I cared about was speed, I'd write it in C.
>
> I promise I'll leave it alone now. 8-)
>
> -- Jerry J
>
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