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paulddraper on Sept 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript

For certain ranges of numbers.

But you could imagine this being part of, say, a "big integer" library. (Which C, C++, PHP, JS all lack.)

ZeikJT on Sept 14, 2018 | [–]

You will hopefully have to edit out JS someday:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/05/bigint

braythwayt on Sept 12, 2018 | [–]

If you like esoteric, I learned this algorithm for obtaining the exponent of a 2x2 matrix, which amusingly enough is part of an interesting fibonaccialgorithm.

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