* calc-eval and lsh/logand of large numbers
@ 2014-10-27 22:58 Sam Halliday
2014-10-28 9:34 ` Sam Halliday
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From: Sam Halliday @ 2014-10-27 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi all,
I was playing with calc-eval to get a feel for the arbitrary precision support and decided to see if it could be used to represent a BitSet. If you're not familiar with the concept, imagine a list of bits and if the N'th bit is true then the set contains the integer N. It's reasonably efficient at storing arbitrary collections of integers: memory requirement is specified by the maximum value rather than the number of entries in the set.
This looked promising:
(require 'calc)
(defmath bitIndex (i)
(lsh 1 i))
(calc-eval "bitIndex(10)") ; "1024"
but when I went to a number that would be shifted beyond the 64 bit length of an integer it all fell apart
(calc-eval "bitIndex(64)") ; "0"
I would have expected this to return "18446744073709551616".
Is this a known limitation or have I simply not understood something?
BTW, if anybody is interested I was planning on doing something like the following. If you have a cleaner way of doing this, please let me know as I'll be interested to hear about it. The reason I'm doing this is because I am writing an S-Exp serialisation layer in Scala and this notation works well for serialising Scala's BitSet's... I was curious to see if I could get it to work in elisp: https://github.com/fommil/ensime-server/blob/sexp/src/main/scala/org/ensime/sexp/formats/CollectionFormats.scala#L131
(defmath bitsetAnd (bitset i)
(logand (lsh 1 i) bitset))
(defun bitsetContains (bitset i)
(<= 1 (calc-eval "bitsetAnd($, $$)" 'raw bitset i)))
(bitsetContains "10#3" 0) ; 't
(bitsetContains "10#3" 1) ; 't
(bitsetContains "10#3" 2) ; nil
(bitsetContains "16#10000000000000000" 64) ; nil
(bitsetContains "16#10000000000000001" 0) ; t
(bitsetContains "16#10000000000000001" 64) ; t WRONG
(bitsetContains "16#10000000000000002" 1) ; t
(bitsetContains "16#10000000000000002" 64) ; t WRONG
(bitsetContains "16#10000000000000002" 0) ; nil
Best regards,
Sam
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