Common Species Of Code

Re:Common Species Of Code by thaumasiotes on Monday November 11, 2013 @09:31AM (#6711732)

I wrote an explicit-formula fibonacci function once. I think you lose precision before n=100. It was disappointing.

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Re:Common Species Of Code by LearnYouALisp on Monday November 11, 2013 @11:11AM (#6712263)

Yes but the mathematician considers the numbers under 100 to be very small fraction of the numbers under, 1000, or 10^12 or something. Or, in math language, a very small portion of the natural numbers.

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Re:Common Species Of Code by hackula1 on Monday November 11, 2013 @11:23AM (#6712326)

As some one who rights stats libraries, I can see it now.

"Bug: code does not work with an input of 1"

"1 is of approaching-zero-significance when you consider all of the other test cases we are meeting. 1 is not the responsibility of this lib. Feel free to fork. ======= issue closed."

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