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Re:Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:45PM (#43509240)
N!! is pretty standard I think.
Re:Show HN: A Mathematical Integration rust crate on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:58AM (#42184883)
R integrate is just a wrapper around quadpack. It works with arbitrary functions, but arguably dnorm is pretty well behaved.
Zstd already existed before Yann Collet joined Facebook.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience on Sunday November 13, 2022 @08:17AM (#33582752)
Bill Hwang of the Archegos blow up has got to be up there too. He lost 20bn in a couple of days.
Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:57AM (#24199404)
How do you get to your 15%? Long term capital gains in the US are taxed at 20% + 3.8% net income tax + state tax. In a city like New York, you're talking close to 40% depending on your tax bracket.
Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:36AM (#15312019)
F# is not a superset of OCaml. There are many things in OCaml that are not in F#. The second link you pointed out lists them.