...and a challenge

[Dar Scott Consulting]

It doesn't have to be text strings. It could be data (byte strings). This would be handy for using the base-16 method for computing pi. In my personal "slow math" library, I have tinkered with binary data, float encoded data, and number arrays, usually using a decimal point. Division is hard. I tinkered a bit with interval arithmetic and want to explore that more. That way I can have indefinite precision decimal intervals. Add complex and I will have to change my library to "very slow math".

One problem is readability.

> On Oct 5, 2019, at 11:43 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> On 10/5/19 8:34 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote:
>> Pi is a reserved work, so I used pie. I haven’t seen this way of producing Pi before, and in both JavaScript and LivceCode it seems to be instantaneous. I think it’s a rewording of 4*(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9…)
> 
> the Taylor algorithm is similar but different.
> 
>> Anyway, see for yourself
> 
> ...the javascript implementation is *very* fast, and one reason is the BigInt support. You're not going to be able to do this in LC without resorting to string chunks.
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>> BTW, I haven’t seen JavaScript using ‘let’ before, or having ’n’ to indicate a floating point number. That could be a dot net thing.
> 
> See Peter Wood's response.
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