Talk:Horner's rule for polynomial evaluation

Task format?

I don't particularly like the layout of the equations in the task description just yet. Although i have tried to cut down on the amount of equations, I needed some, but they don't seem to flow with the text around them very well. --Paddy3118 06:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

I had a go at tidying things up. The trick is to use indentation and avoid <br>. I also made the pseudocode look more pseudocode-y; it might be better to rewrite it to use a for…downto loop though. –Donal Fellows 09:13, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Donal. --Paddy3118 14:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

J language and p.

Just wondered, does p. use Horner's rule? --Paddy3118 03:11, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Actually, #. (which represents the core of Horner's approach and is incredibly useful) existed in the language spec long before p. and p. was added for convenience and to support a few other related polynomial mechanisms. (So, it is almost certain that p. uses Horner's rule.) --Rdm 15:06, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

C++ solution: Error

I think there's a bug in the C++ solution (the original one, not the more idiomatic one I just added): It seems that it decrements an iterator to the first element of the vector, which is undefined behaviour (and may trigger a run time error on certain implementations). --Ce 12:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)