minus-squaregens@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which Linux tool or command is surprisingly simple, powerful, and yet underrated?"linkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoI once wrote a bc script that calculated parameters for the Blackman window for a FIR filter. (Had formulas already so not that impressive) Upped the precision until it needed like 30 sec to calculate, completely unnecessarely :). linkfedilink
minus-squaregens@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•IEEE 754linkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days agoScheme and many others. And lots of libraries for C and others. It’s called bignum, or Arbitrary-precision arithmetic. linkfedilink
I once wrote a bc script that calculated parameters for the Blackman window for a FIR filter. (Had formulas already so not that impressive) Upped the precision until it needed like 30 sec to calculate, completely unnecessarely :).