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Heh, show me a patient JS dev ;)

Mmm, time for some pie!

Just a suggestion, have you looked at the MPFR project, and derivatives: https://www.mpfr.org/

http://mpfr.loria.fr/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#index-mpfr_005fs...

It is way to deep in the grubby details for my pay grade, but who knows?

[Aside on Taylor Series] The section on recurrence relations is the basis of a little-known ODE solving technique sometimes known as the Taylor Series Method (occasionally Differential Transform). It allows an "extension" of Euler's Method to arbitrary order (using arbitrary precision arithmetic), by _calculating_ the higher derivatives rather than approximating them as in RK4 and friends.

Here is an open access link to just one of many papers on the subject: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.em/1120145574

It includes a link to the actual software they used.

[EDIT] Obviously applying the technique above to dx/dt = x reproduces the Taylor Series in the article!

Before Git, branching and merging was a nightmare. People are using git to do much more complicated things than in the days of CVS/SVN.

Huh? He sped it up much more by rewriting as a loop . . .

It was only ever a con, perpetrated by corrupt politicians.

Just let them try! ;)

The ISS is in free-fall, so that should be zero-g, not microgravity.

. . . and probably cannot be sustained indefinitely.

If you like the article, here are some videos I made a while ago, showing what might be seen by the traveler in the twin "paradox" as she leaves and returns to base (click "show more" to see the terse descriptive text): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGnzGhIWTGR-O332xj0s...

One of them is a 3D "Tompkins" view : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lZXFXWN37M&list=PLvGnzGhIWT...

View in 1080 rez to see the clocks etc.

It is the cost of making computers "user friendly" and providing a positive "user experience". Can't be done without layers of crap, it's a law of physics.

The alternative is to deal with computers how they naturally "want" to be talked to. Then life is simple, you just need _engineers_ to write the software, and to _train_ people to use it.

Yeah hitting the up arrow a couple of times then return is a real pain.

The hippies.

The BBC is linking it now.

Possibly the article was considered too positive for some elements?

Then reflagged.

Now unflagged. Good.

Stallman right again shocker!

My desktop is a Raspberry Pi, you insensitive clod!

Nope. That is not what an event is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_(relativity)

Events are never curved!

Great to hear. Just hope they can resist the inevitable flood of "good ideas" and stick to their design.

[EDIT] recognized your nick from IRC a while back, my "good idea" is still to add support for 80-bit floats ;)

Nim currently in uber-cool phase. I love it.

After adding a million requested features it will end up bloated like all the others . . .

Yep, I have plenty of books dating back to the seventies (some even older). They are all still perfectly functional.

Not heard of a 50 year old epub or pdf yet, wonder if it will ever happen ;)

Web last, please!

Bean counters prefer to pay others to "make those problems seem to go away".

Indiscreet mathematics?

That one took me a few seconds . . . ;)

Hehe, who remembers Mary Whitehouse these days?