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FactChecker replied to the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?".Ha! One of my gripes is that some people given a simple task to program are tempted to create their own language to do it. They... -
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By gum, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that. I had no idea. That's all there is to it. Whoops, I wrote over my post! It was about... -
FactChecker reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?" with Like.
I would suggest processing for people starting out who want interactive games or visual effects. It comes with everything you need to...
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FactChecker reacted to Mamta25's post in the thread For those who ask: "What programming language should I learn?" with Like.
Hey, If you are confused about which programming language to learn first, i would suggest start with Python because it is very easy to...
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FactChecker reacted to pasmith's post in the thread Prove that l^p is a subset of l^q for all p,q from 1 to infinity with Like.
Is there a condition on p and q, such as q < p? Otherwise you are being asked to prove l^p \subsetneq l^q \subsetneq l^p which is...
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FactChecker reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python? with
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A Python list is not a linked list; the internal implementation at the C level is an array of pointers to the objects in the list... -
FactChecker replied to the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python?.I spoke too soon when I said your example looked simple. If it is setting up a linked list of integers, data, possibly scattered around...
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FactChecker reacted to Isabella Hope's post in the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python? with Like.
Good question! On my machine, creating the list + looping through 1,000,000 items takes around a few hundred milliseconds total. It’s...
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FactChecker reacted to willem2's post in the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python? with Informative.
One of the reasons that python is slow, is that any variable can be any object. This will make it necessary to check the type of the...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python?.How long does it take? Python has a reputation of being very slow, but I would be surprised if something that simple took a noticeable...
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FactChecker reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python? with Like.
The "algorithm" here is very simple and looks linear in the size of the list--but actually you are running two linear algorithms--one to...
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FactChecker replied to the thread I Significant figures for inherently bound values.These days it is easy to get a lot of significant digits in a calculation. Here is a Perl example that does a simple division...
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FactChecker replied to the thread I Significant figures for inherently bound values.I mentioned the statistical significance because you said it was for a statistics class. In any case, the significance of digits...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Why does my loop run slower with larger lists in Python?.It is important to know what the algorithm is doing with the list. Some algorithm times grow exponentially. Others do not. That has...
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FactChecker replied to the thread I Significant figures for inherently bound values.What if you know, at a 6-sigma significance level, that the value is between 0.99991233 and 0.99991235? Wouldn't all the digits...