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why 'lambda' and 'reduce'?

Manuel Garcia news at manuelmgarcia.com
Thu Jun 12 20:28:11 EDT 2003 
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:09:37 -0600, Steven Taschuk
<staschuk at telusplanet.net> wrote:

>(It prints the first 5000 digits of pi, by the way.  At least, it
>seems to.  The first thirty digits are right, at least, and the
>algorithm is based on a sound plan.  The only question is whether
>the arithmetic error and hardcoded recurrence-iteration limits
>affect more than ten digits (which is what the code allows for).

I shouldn't feed a troll, but this reply is just too delicious.  The
author claims the code is unobfuscated, but the nature of how all 5000
digits are kept accurate are obfuscated from him.

>Determining *that* would require someone who actually knows
>something about numerical analysis, which I do not.)

Now you're saying something!  ;-)

Manuel
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