News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: You can program without loop and recursion and×÷- is all you need. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: You can program without loop and recursion and×÷... by stoltzmann on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:13PM (#40977870)
The question isn't as to how it will be represented, that's the boring part.

When given a number n, and you want to display them, how will you actually compute the numbers from 1 to n? If you precalculate a table - then how will you do n+1? What about n+2?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: You can program without loop and recursion and×÷... by raoof on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:41PM (#40978106)
it takes a lot of time and patient to come up with a function that works for all n and also have a short length, let me try if I can solve this problem it may takes a few hours or days or maybe months I'll post the solution here so stay tuned. but if you want to make your life easier you can generate the function in a meta language so you can always be sure that your software does not have a halting problem
[ Parent | on HN ]