Re: Re: Re: Finding the next larger prime.

Agreed. Once you notice that the digits after the last '.' are always 10, the realisation dawns, but it meant absolutely nothing when I first saw it. It's a very strange way to right exponential numbers.

It could equally as well mean 6 * 62.10³⁷⁰!

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Re4: Finding the next larger prime. by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 30, 2003 at 16:46 UTC
Not really. It could be parsed that way, but it can't be lexed that way, not in the given context. ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6 ... strings and arrays will suffice. As they are easily available as native data types in any sane language, ... - blokhead, speaking on evolutionary algorithms Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]

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Re4: Finding the next larger prime.
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 30, 2003 at 16:46 UTC

could

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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6

... strings and arrays will suffice. As they are easily available as native data types in any sane language, ... - blokhead, speaking on evolutionary algorithms

Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.

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