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by bostick 1y ago
FYI, in my opinion, clang `[[musttail]]` is not quite ready for prime time. (cannot speak to GCC) I was excited when it was introduced but quickly ran into issues. Here is a silent miscompilation involving `[[musttail]]` that I reported in
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by bostick 1y ago
I am also interested in the Crucial SSD 5184 hour thing. Here are the options as I see them: * related to 5124 hours = 2^64 picoseconds Then how to account for the extra 60 hours? Maybe there is some rounding error involved with the arithme
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by bostick 1y ago
Just yesterday, I put up a blog about tracking down a date / time bug in Domino / Notes: What happened on December 13, 2024? [1] [1] https://bostick.github.io/blog/2025/04/what-happened/
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by bostick 2y ago
Wolfram Alpha's math input is broken in other ways as well: https://bostick.github.io/blog/2024/05/precision-bombing/ Entering input such as: 1*^-1355718576299609 or: 1.0`90071992 will trigger bad b
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by bostick 4y ago
Are there any references for this? What is the "epoch" here? 1024 weeks before Sept 17 is February 1, 2003. What is significant about that date? References welcome.
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by bostick 4y ago
Is the Half Collatz Conjecture (HCC) trivial, as currently stated? The definition: > H(n = 2k) = n and H(2k + 1) = 3k + 2 means that time to iterate H until its argument is even is exactly the length of the run of right-most 1 bits. Coll
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by bostick 10y ago
I made a language for doing 2-adic arithmetic easily and exploring the Collatz 3n+1 problem. I am not aware of any languages with 2-adic number primitives, so created one! https://github.com/bostick/tuppence/
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Show HN: Tuppence Programming Language for 2-adic arithmetic(github.com)
2 points by bostick 10y ago|0 comments