Re: Adding a generic mathematical library

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Christopher Dimech wrote:

> We should ask the community what tools they would like to
> use, whether combinatorics, random numbers (Gaussian,
> Bernoulli, Binomial), ...
>
> May I suggest "Units and Conversions". "Symbolic
> Simplification" could also be a candidate.
>
> To promote a mathematical library in Emacs and ensure its
> broad adoption, we can think of some things outside the
> realm of your libraries but which others would appreciate.

Yes, I'll see what we can find and reuse. They are not really
complete libraries, even those who sound like they are - time,
random, permutations etc - they are just files where I put
everything that has to do with it.

It is not a bad method, but does not intend to create complete
libraries. None are and as for the whole math field,
that's huge, not covered by my files, haha (impossible).

I'd like to join this project formally now, after so many
times suggesting it and now doing this as well.

But for sure, I won't be able to do it alone and also I don't
have _that_ strong background in math. I did complete a bunch
of university courses, but yeah, how much did I understand,
truly? It feels like: to some degree that matters, sure, and
to a practical degree, fine, but not to that HUGE
a degree, really.

I know one person, from Poland, but he is probably busy.
And I know one person from Russia, maybe he is reading this?
Anyone else, join - if we get to be a bunch of guys it will
not be that difficult and big a project. Or rather, all it
will take is time.

Yes, you Mr Dimech, join as well. Why not?

I'll end this by sharing this file. Does the ASCII look good?
(If not, follow the URL.)

If you want to evaluate, first do (defalias '** #'expt)

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  BINARY UNITS                                            incal@dataswamp.org
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        name               bytes   unit   max value
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   char/byte                   1          (1- (** 2 (* 8     (** 2  0)   )))
        word                   2          (1- (** 2 (* 8     (** 2  1)   )))
  doubleword                   4          (1- (** 2 (* 8     (** 2  2)   )))
    quadword                   8          (1- (** 2 (* 8     (** 2  3)   )))
   paragraph                  16          (1- (** 2 (* 8     (** 2  4)   )))
    kilobyte               1 024   KiB    (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 1))))
    megabyte           1 048 576   MiB    (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 2))))
    gigabyte       1 073 741 824   GiB    (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 3))))
    terabyte   1 099 511 627 776   TiB    (1- (** 2 (* 8 (** (** 2 10) 4))))
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                                                                 ^^^^
                                                                 1024



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