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Can referential transparency be assumed when dealing with floating-point arithmetic?
A pure function is assumed to produce the same outputs given the same inputs. Suppose an (otherwise) side-effects free function computes with floating-point numbers. Due to numerical error, these ...
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Functional programming and stateful algorithms
I'm learning functional programming with Haskell. In the meantime I'm studying Automata theory and as the two seem to fit well together I'm writing a small library to play with automata.
Here's the ...
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Is Object Oriented stuff really that important? [closed]
For years, I have been doing Algorithmic stuff, writing scalable data structures for internet search, for example Randomized Binary Search Trees for Auto Recommendation, BitMaps, Wisdom of Crowd based ...
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