• Iron Lynx
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    2 months ago

    Sleep(1e5.9[...]), where [...] is everything else, and hope that the compiler or interpreter can handle non-integer exponents for this type of scientific notation.

    • @thevoidzero
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      22 months ago

      It’d be easier to do 9e5, 8e5 and so on though. Linear decrease in time with each optimization. 1e5.9 seems risky.

      • Iron Lynx
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        12 months ago

        Depends on how and/or if you want to curve future changes. Going 1e5.9, 1e5.8, 1e5.7, … will curve logarithmically, while 9e5, 8e5, 7e5, … will curve linearly within each power of ten, then get a discontinuity at 1e5 and go 9e4 and scale linearly at a different rate.

        Of course, you’ll have to be an absolute nerd to find that a problem and there’s a nonzero chance that I’m such a nerd and I just admitted my guilt 😅