Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

[Geoff Canyon]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
wrote:

> On 05/10/2015 04:51 AM, Randy Hengst wrote:
>
>  Based on what I’ve seen in this discussion and info from reading the list
>> for several years, LiveCode has difficulty with very large numbers.
>>
>
> True. But to be fair, this is not a problem specific to LiveCode. It's a
> generic problem in any programming language - eventually you will run into
> the limits of the math library and the limits of the processor. The limits
> aren't always immediately obvious, and some "trickery" is then necessary to
> redefine the problem space.


I can't let something like this go by without mentioning that my
second-favorite language J gives arbitrary-precision integer math just by
appending x to the inputs, e.g.

2x^200

1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376


J is neat.