06-28-2003, 05:50 AM
Quote:What is Statlib?
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StatLib was born out of the statistical challenge mentioned before (which na_th_an won), and also out of a wonderful idea by Neo (who is away on holiday at the moment). Basically put, it is a library used for calculating many complicated statistical functions, like factorials, binomial theorem, array sorting and graph drawing, but the difference is Neo's idea, which stores all numbers as strings instead of the typical data types, making calculation of numbers like 2000! and the 3000th fibonacci number a snap in QBasic.
Unfortunately I'm very busy at the mo so I'm ignoring it most of the time, but if I had a spare day or two the engine would be done and then only the actual statistical functions would be left.