On 29 Jul 2006 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> From: John Zelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] digits of pi
> 
> Here's a generator I coded up based on a paper by Gibbons:
>    http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/spigot.pdf
> 
> It's simple to code, but I think you have to read the paper to figure out 
> what 
> it's doing. (I just translated some code, so I really can't tell you :-) In 
> the paper, this was done in a lazy functional language. I was mostly 
> interested to see how it would translate to a Python generator.

Are both things: Python generators and lazy evaluation, two 
different tools that solve the same domain of problems?

Daniel

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