The UTF-8 format has the disadvantage that the length of characters and code points varies. Accessing a given position counted in characters is only possible by starting from the beginning or by providing an indexing structure. It is a good idea to find a balance between size and speed. So indexing blocks of several kilobyte …
Monatliche Archive: Februar 2015
Geometric and Harmonic Rounding
Most of our rounding methods are based on arithmetic rounding. Please refer to the nomenclature described in Residue Class Rounding. So we can base our rounding on a metric and the most obvious choice is the absolute value of the difference of the two parameters, . That is what everybody does and nothing else really …