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Comment #48840115
You can do it a bit faster by not quicksorting the entire array, as you don't really care about the order of the lowest and highest numbers as long as they are not close to the mid…
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Comment #48549234
For Opus 4.8, 142.3k input, 2.0m output for the entire project. No longer have access to Fable 5 to check.
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Comment #48549185
Corrected the dates, thank you! What are the other errors?
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Comment #48549132
Thank you. Of course the dates were out of order. The Java library (com.hp.creals) is 1999-2004, paper is from 2005. Unfortunate price of LLM-assisted development. Corrected.
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Comment #48549055
That should be doable, too. Maybe as a next project.
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Comment #48549018
This is different from a CAS. For example, if you ask it to do exp(100)+1-exp(100), it does not rearrange and cancel out the two exp(100)s. Instead, it does exp, addition, and subt…
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Comment #48548985
Correct, but if you don't know the next digit is 2, you can think it's all 9s, another representation of an integer number.
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Comment #48506137
Author here. I could not find a constructive‑reals calculator on iPhone, so I ported the engine Android uses: Hans Boehm's com.hp.creals plus AOSP's UnifiedReal/BoundedRational. Us…
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Comment #48492698
Looks like it uses seven colors (including bodies of water). Can it be done with fewer colors? The four color theorem does not quite apply, as all bodies of water have to be the sa…
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Comment #829298
Eskimo bowline is non-exploding, nevertheless I wouldn't use bowline (or eskimo bowline) while rock climbing without somehow securing the working end. Kalmyk loop (which is explodi…
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Comment #829153
Kalmyk loop is exploding - pull to untie. Bowline is not. Bowline requires stopper knots when used on on modern ropes, otherwise it can slip. I've never seen kalmyk loop slip. Both…
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Comment #829062
Why does everyone likes bowline so much when eskimo bowline or kalmyk loop ( http://dimview.org/knots/ ) is much better?