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gknoy
4044 days ago
The author does some neat things. When they're comparing Really Small Numbers multiplied together, to avoid underflow, they instead calculate the logs of the pieces and add them. Very nice. :)
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samlewis
4044 days ago
It's a fairly common (but cool nonetheless) trick that often turns up in stats :)
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