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Re:Calculize: A Mathematical Scripting Language by jashkenas on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @11:53AM (#2864459)
One major problem with any JS-based language for number crunching is JS' lack of any numeric types other than a double.

I don't know how well the string-based workarounds really work, for arbitrary precision math ... but I'd imagine that they wouldn't be terribly fast or convenient. It's a real shame.

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Re:Calculize: A Mathematical Scripting Language by mbrubeck on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:54PM (#2864715)
Current versions of Firefox and Chrome have typed arrays, which add more numeric types for performance optimization. Hopefully we will see them in other browsers soon: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/javascript_typed_arrays
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