Shouts out to the c program which draws a circle in ASCII art in a comment and calculates pi by reflexively parsing its own source code
@Lady @wallhackio what exactly in that post gave you the impurression that the purrogram had any intention of using computation time usefully
@aescling @wallhackio i’m just going to assume the both of you are math majors at heart and are really into proofs that demonstrate things that have already been resolutely proven but with a weirder set of steps this time
@aescling @wallhackio if i was going to pick a problem to solve by reading and parsing a comment from the source code i wouldn’t pick one that was trivially already solved by other means, because that fails to demonstrate anything meaningful or interesting about the technique, except that it is obviously a worse solution
@wallhackio @aescling this answers my original question, “why would you calculate something the computer gives you as a compile time constant”
@wallhackio @aescling i stand by my claim that this is a clearly math major thing to do though
@wallhackio why would you calculate something the computer gives you as a compile time constant