On Feb 8, 2008 9:12 AM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Mark Schoonover wrote: > > >Note: I researched the Ackerman function on Wikipedia. Interesting > function > >to say the least. According to SICP, when (= x 0) (* 2 y), but according > to > >the defn, when (= x 0) (+ 1 y). Am I missing something? > > CISP's coding of Ackermann is not the standard one, although it still does > the right amount of excess recursion, which is what Ackermann's intent > was. > > The SICP one ends up with a lot bigger numbers, though. Ok, Um, a _lot_ > bigger. > > Which scheme implementation are you using? Does it support big numbers? > > David > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg >
I'm using Dr Scheme.. Maybe there's a setting I'm missing for large numbers? -- Mark Schoonover, CMDBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/markschoonover http://marksitblog.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
