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DaiPlusPlus
7 months ago
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Did any processor implement an integer square root...
Fractal functions are pure, but don’t lend themselves well to memoization nor lookup tables.
meindnoch
7 months ago
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What does this statement even mean? Every function from a finite domain
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just a lookup table, period.
DaiPlusPlus
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Who said anything about finite-domains?
meindnoch
7 months ago
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Every function has finite domain on a computer.
DaiPlusPlus
7 months ago
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Arbitrary-precision real-number libraries would disagree with you there.
meindnoch
7 months ago
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False. A computer always has a finite amount of memory.
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