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Formerly a games developer, I am now studying for a PhD in microbial genetics.
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May 25 |
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In languages that don't allow underscores in integer constants, is it a good practice to create a constant for 1 billion? In the UK, at least, we've long since adopted the 1e9 billion. |
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May 16 |
awarded | Informed |
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May 15 |
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Is there any reason to use C++ instead of C, Perl, Python, etc.? There is no case in which C++ is slower than C because you can always use the C way if it is faster (and you care). |
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May 9 |
answered | Why is there no 'finally' construct in C++? |
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Mar 6 |
answered | About the usage of assertions |
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Mar 4 |
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What causes floating point rounding errors? Spot on. But I would also note that some numbers that terminate in decimal don't terminate in binary. In particular 0.1 is a recurring number in binary and so no floating point binary number can exactly represent 0.1. |
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Feb 12 |
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Problems Calculating Big-O Complexity Are you recalling these from memory? If so, are you sure that list was passed as an int[]? The only way I can think that they might not be O(N) is if you have non-constant access time to elements. |
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Feb 7 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jan 18 |
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Why don't languages include implication as a logical operator? But C doesn't have it, in turn, because it's not a common part of assembly language. Whereas as all instruction sets I know of include and, or and not, I know of none that include implies - no doubt someone will be along to tell me of some obscure instruction set that does shortly... |
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Jan 16 |
awarded | Editor |
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Jan 16 |
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Jan 16 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 16 |
answered | Readability of || statements |
