Integer sequence: Difference between revisions

The following will count indefinitely but once the 32-bit (or 64-bit depending on J engine version) limit is reached, the results will be reported as floating point values (which would immediately halt on 64 bit J and halt with the 53 bit precision limit is exceeded on 32 bit J). Since that could take many, many centuries, even on a 32 bit machine, more likely problems include the user dying of old age and failing to pay the electric bill resulting in the machine being powered off.

 

 

The above works with both fixed sized integers and floating point numbers (fixed sized integers are automatically promoted to floating point, if they overflow), but also works with extended precision integers (which will not overflow, unless they get so large that they cannot be represented in memory, but that should exceed lifetime of the universe, let alone lifetime of the computer).

 

This adds support for extended precision (in that it converts non-extended precision arguments to extended precision arguments) and will display integers to ∞ (or at least until the machine is turned off or interrupted or crashes).

 

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