Not really, because the same could be asked for and/ wih a zero somewhere.
But more important is the question of what zero really is.fuzz comes so
easily and very small times large is/is-not important.
Ralph Selfridge
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Richard Donovan wrote:
It would save me a lot of time if */ y (product) could be made to return
zero result as
soon as it encounters a 0 in y .
y=.0,1e7#7
ts '*/y' NB. nearly six seconds to calc on a mid-range pentium
5.85124 1088
could in fact return zero "instantaneously". Oviously this is the "best/worst case
scenario" to make
my point but it seems that */ continues the multiplication even after it
"knows" that the result
will be zero. I have records containing many thousands of fields, any of which
could be zero, and
it would save an immense amount of time if */ could be amended.
This seems like it may be an easy and worthwhile change.
Similarly...
x=.0
ts 'y-x' NB. Lots of time and space to do nothing!
0.149041 6.71095e7
ts 'y+x'
0.157018 6.71095e7
ts 'y'
1.00571e_5 384
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