Tag: C/C++
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Write-only? A simple program translated from C to Forth
The old joke is that Forth is a “write-only language”. in other words, you can write this stuff but you cannot understand it (and hence maintain it). Of course, any endorsement of this view is regarded as a heresy amongst many in the Forth community, but I have to admit that sometimes the Forth-bashers have…
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The unreasonable ineffectiveness of arithmetic with floating point numbers
Eugene Wigner’s wrote a famous short essay “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” in 1960. To be honest I find it slightly underwhelming: to me mathematics is the abstraction from physical reality and not – as might be implied by Wigner – that our physical universe is a concretised subset of a…
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I love binary trees
A few years ago I was very proud of myself for managing to translate the original Pascal of the Reingold-Tilford algorithm into C/C++ and every since then I have had a fascination for drawing binary trees. The one drawn here was actually done “by hand” in Metapost – I realised only as I finished…
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 