[ANN] New version of the MasterLibrary is available

[Geoff Canyon]

You could handle (some) larger combinatorials (and speed up the code) by
modifying like so:

function __factorialFloor x,f
   if x <= f then return 1
   return x * __factorialFloor(x-1,f)
end __factorialFloor

function __nCombFloor n, r
   if (r > 0) or (r <= n) then \
         return __factorialFloor(n,max(r,n-r))/__factorial(min(r,n-r))
   Answer "nComb error:" && r && "is not between 0 and" && n
   exit to top
end __nCombFloor

Of course, to handle even more/larger possible values you could decompose
the arguments to their prime factors and eliminate dupes rather than
divide, but this was a fairly easy optimization.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Release 24
> *    added:
>     __Zap - a function that returns only POSIX printable characters,
> space, tab and return from a
>        string
>     __GetRegexMatches - Finds all the matches of pregex in ptext and
> returns a list of the
>        start,end char positions
>     __deleteExtraTokens - This fuction witll remove sequences of the
> specified token that are greater than
>        one.
>    __combinatorial - returns all possible subsets of a set, where n = #
> of objects in the set
>    __nComb - Returns the # of combinations of n objects taken r at a time
>    __factorial - Returns x!
>    __latLongDist - Finds distances  between two points based on Latitude
> and Longitude
>    __dd2dms - Converts a digital longitude or Latitude into degrees,
> minutes, seconds, direction format.
>    __dms2dd - Converts a degrees, minutes, seconds, direction longitude or
> latitude to digital format
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wpwn3hfbmpl7sk/MasterLibrary.livecode?dl=0
>
> Enjoy...
>
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