And did you take steps to ensure that round-off and truncation errors did not get out of hand in the one-billion-iteration computation?
I note that for d=: ". (0 : 0) -. CRLF 0 1 1 2 1 2 1 4 3 13 5 1 1 8 1 2 4 1 1 40 1 11 3 7 1 7 1 1 5 1 49 4 1 65 1 4 7 11 1 399 2 1 3 2 1 2 1 5 3 2 1 10 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 4 1 1 2 5 1 3 6 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 16 8 1 1 2 16 6 1 2 2 1 7 2 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 ) (+%)/ d 0.577216 0j18 ": (+%)/d 0.577215664901532870 And (+%)/d takes 0.2 milliseconds. ----- Original Message ----- From: DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:38 Subject: [Jchat] pocket pc speed doing J: about 12 hrs for 1 billion grouped iterations To: chat forum <[email protected]> > of the euler-mascheroni constant, yielding > > 0.5772156654014893 , which is getting there, slowly > > very slowly > > kind of satisfying and impressive both for J and the pocket pc > > it will take another 12 odd hours to determine the precise time > required ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
