Talk:Long multiplication: Difference between revisions
What does "algorithm" really mean, when comparing languages?
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:: I Marked many of these as wrong, since the least that should be done is uniform treatment of all bignum implementations as wrong. If it's fine to use bignums (regardless of range or speed), then it should be very clear, and the wrong comments should be removed from all of the implementations, IMO. --[[User:Elibarzilay|Elibarzilay]] ([[User talk:Elibarzilay|talk]]) 07:09, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
::: At one point, this site had a guideline that tasks should specify the goals of the implementation, and maybe some tests, but that we should not specify how the computations are performed. Otherwise, in the general case, we do not have a way of comparing languages. We have drifted away from that, I think, because it's so popular to specify the details of how things get done. I think we are running into that tension, here. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 10:59, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
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