Hi Paul,
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:22:34 -0500
Paul Procacci wrote:
> If you wouldn't mind, please stop referring things as being "magical".
> There's nothing magical about Raku/Perl6 other than the devs that put in
> their time to give you that perception.
> They are to be commended for their time
Hello ToddAndMargo,
The answer to your question depends on how the number is represented.
If you are using a symbolic data type, meaning one that represents a number as a
logical formula akin to program source code, and the operators on that data type
work by manipulating tree expressions into
On 2020-02-19 21:22, Paul Procacci wrote:
If you wouldn't mind, please stop referring things as being "magical".
That is not an insult. I am using it as term of admiration.
And I did not dream it up myself. I have had several of
the developers use both magical and Magic Larry powder
on me, w
If you wouldn't mind, please stop referring things as being "magical".
There's nothing magical about Raku/Perl6 other than the devs that put in
their time to give you that perception.
They are to be commended for their time and effort.
Also, being condescending as in "he gave up" is uncalled for.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:58 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote:
Hi All,
This is a complete trivia question.
Is there a test to see if a number is irrational,
such as the square root of two?
And how does Int handle a irrational number? Is
>> Is there a test to see if a number is irrational
There is no such thing as an irrational number in computing.
Surely there are "close approximations", but that's the best any computer
language can currently do.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:58 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <
perl6-us...@perl.or
Hi All,
This is a complete trivia question.
Is there a test to see if a number is irrational,
such as the square root of two?
And how does Int handle a irrational number? Is
there a limit to magic Larry powder?
Many thanks,
-T
Great work, and thanks, Patrick.
El mié., 19 feb. 2020 a las 20:46, Patrick Spek via perl6-users (<
perl6-us...@perl.org>) escribió:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Just now I've sent an announcement to perl6-compil...@perl.org, to
> notify people that I've made a first non-rc release of Rakudo Star. For
> th
Hi everyone!
Just now I've sent an announcement to perl6-compil...@perl.org, to
notify people that I've made a first non-rc release of Rakudo Star. For
those of you that use Rakudo Star, this may be a good time to try out
the latest version! The files are available from https://dist.tyil.nl:
- ht
I hereby announce my first non-rc release of Rakudo Star, version
2020.01. It can be downloaded from
https://dist.tyil.nl/raku/rakudo-star. The files of interest are,
specifically,
- https://dist.tyil.nl/raku/rakudo-star/rakudo-star-2020.01.tar.gz
- https://dist.tyil.nl/raku/rakudo-star/rakudo-sta
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