I'm learning C++ and writing little programs as I go along. The following is one such program: // This program is intended to take any integer and convert to the // corresponding signed char. #include <iostream> int main() { signed char sch = 0; int n = 0; while(true){ std::cin >> n; sch = n; std::cout << n << " -->...
I've been considering fast poker hand evaluation in Python. It occurred to me that one way to speed the process up would be to represent all the card faces and suits as prime numbers and multiply them together to represent the hands. To whit: class PokerCard: faces = '23456789TJQKA' suits = 'cdhs' facePrimes = [11, 13, 17, 1...
Using PHP I want to do millions of 2^n exponentiation but so far I only got up to n^1023 before PHP printed INF. Any ideas? ...