meta-comment on typing
Per Bothner
(05 Oct 2005 17:35 UTC)
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Re: meta-comment on typing
John.Cowan
(05 Oct 2005 22:00 UTC)
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Re: meta-comment on typing
Per Bothner
(05 Oct 2005 22:14 UTC)
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Re: meta-comment on typing
John.Cowan
(06 Oct 2005 04:55 UTC)
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Re: meta-comment on typing
Michael Sperber
(06 Oct 2005 06:03 UTC)
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Re: meta-comment on typing
Per Bothner
(06 Oct 2005 15:35 UTC)
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[SRFI 77] integer-length and integer-sqrt Jens Axel Søgaard (06 Oct 2005 15:54 UTC)
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Re: meta-comment on typing
Michael Sperber
(06 Oct 2005 16:17 UTC)
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[SRFI 77] integer-length and integer-sqrt Jens Axel Søgaard 06 Oct 2005 15:54 UTC
Thanks for a very interesting number srfi. Efficient (and portable) arithmetic in Scheme has been on my wish list for a long time. I propose adding the following two operations on integers. The first is INTEGER-LENGTH from CLHS <http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_intege.htm> which returns the number of bits needed to represent a given integer in binary two's-complement format. Although it is possible to define INTEGER-LENGTH as a library function, it will be more efficient as a primitive, since it can exploit the internal representation of an integer. The second is INTEGER-SQRT, which is discussed here: <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_frm/thread/dc06e91e306cf488/a9cf92f425bb3db1?lnk=st&q=lucier+integer-sqrt&rnum=1&hl=en#a9cf92f425bb3db1> I consider INTEGER-SQRT just as natural an operation as GCD and LCM when it comes to number theoretical calculations. But this may be a matter of taste. -- Jens Axel Søgaard