Hello everyone. I have been using the Haskell compiler GHC 6.6 a bit recently to test some simple programs (for learning purposes). In it's default mode it produces three output files for a given...

If the backslash is used to start escape sequences in Lisp, the compiler will remove it and replace it with whatever \u (for example) represents (which may be nothing). Try escaping each backslash...

Hello everyone. I had an idea for an encryption system based on irrational numbers a while ago and wrote down a rough specification. It is basically like this:

1. Decide on an irrational number...

Hello everyone. I would imagine a fair few people who hang around in this forum have done or are doing computing related degrees. I was just wondering, do computer science / related degrees these...

Hello everyone. I recently came accross the concept of Turing completeness (in languages). I was wondering, is there a general method for determining if a language is Turing complete? Or is it one...

Hello everyone. I am planning to write a program, part of which will be able to calculate the value of an irrational number to an unlimited number of places. I will probably use a C++ class to...

Hello everyone. I've seen computers crash a few times in my time :p . From what I've read it seems that when a computer "freezes" or stops responding it may be down to the following causes:

1....