INindigoabstract·Sep 17, 2023Submission
Fuzzy Match in C and JavaScript
2 points · Open discussionforrestthewoods
lib_fts
C2019–2023
forrestthewoods / lib_fts
lib_fts
single-file public domain libraries
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
701GitHub stars
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Observed mentions: 2019-07-02 09:49:39 UTC to 2023-09-17 12:09:13 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesThat assumes there is a geometrically meaningful description. A lot of times a computation has no intrinsic meaning. Algebra is going to rearrange and cancel terms into nonsense.
A long name can tell you _what_ a value is. But it’s of zero use in explaining _why_ it’s being used.
The only solution is a lengthy comment explaining the process. Here some ballistic trajectory code I wrote awhile back. Good luck making sense of any single term!
https://github.com/forrestthewoods/lib_fts/blob/26a0d115eb44...
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