[Cincinnati-pm] July cinci.pm - July 17th

[Greg Estep]

Greg Estep
<greg.estep at gmail.com>

I’m curious why the word and line counts offered by wc(1) are so large.
Maybe I’m not correctly remembering what the “f” sub command does in dc(1).


Also, my Gmail app made the humorous offer “translate to English” when
reading Scott’s message.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 9:55 AM Scott Corzine <scott at ties.org> wrote:

> For everyone who doesn't care:
>
>> sun-bear:~ scott$ time dc -e '9 9 9 ^^f' | wc
>>  5436664 5436664 380566427
>> real 259m28.856s
>> user 197m38.172s
>> sys 4m10.786s
>> sun-bear:~ scott$
>>
> So it took my MacBook Air (M1) 5 hours to actually compute the exact
> arbitrary precision 9^9^9 (using ~~40 year old C) and count the 308,566,426
> characters that made up the result.  But it did finish and didn't over run
> my 8 GB RAM (with a whole lot of other stuff running).
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM Jon Gentle <atrodo at atrodo.org> wrote:
>
>> Good Morning,
>>
>> Wanted to a moment for a quick reminder about Wednesday's cinci.pm.
>> Looks like we're going to be talking about using a Red/Black tree as a LRU
>> cache, which I'm looking forward to seeing how. See you then.
>>
>> -Jon Gentle
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 10:03 AM Jon Gentle <atrodo at atrodo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> Next Wednesday, July 17th, will be the monthly meeting for July. I
>>> currently do not have a topic, so if you have something of interest, let me
>>> know. See you then!
>>>
>>> What: TBD
>>> When: Wednesday, July 17th @ 7:00pm
>>> Where: https://meet.google.com/svv-oyqb-xtd
>>>
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