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[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Max11 is all my code. Why doesn't it work????πŸ€”

[–] 13@masto.bg 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@coja I am the engineer because I forget about Math.max existence

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Engineer likely ends up with the smallest code. Though the hit to execution time for a branch sucks. (Pipelines and such)

Bit hacker will take the least execution time because of pipelines, but it needs more comments. Maybe something like // trust me, this works.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I use 8, but only when I'm operating on unsigned longs.

Yoink.

Actually I've probably been all of these at various times in my career.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I'm mostly lost and in over my head

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

here’s another mathematical approach (that has the added benefit of only working when x and y are both positive).

let f denote the linear functional on ℝ^2^ defined by f(1,0) = x and f(0,1) = y (and extend by linearity). then the operator norm || f || is equal to max(x,y).

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Why use const max = (x, y) => x > y ? x : y instead of function max(x, y) { return x > y ? x : y } ?

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

2, but I'm incredibly embarrassed to say that I've had to do 9 before

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