Isaac Newton came up with an elegant method for calculating square roots through a series of approximations that get refined over time. At the end of this post, I will show a racket implementation of the procedure. Overview The square of can be written as either or in the exponential form . Therefore, the square […]
Month: January 2023
Prompt Ben Bitdiddle has invented a test to determine whether the interpreter he is faced with is using applicative-order evaluation or normal-order evaluation. To refresh your memory, “applicative-order” means that procedure arguments get evaluated before being substituted into a procedure. “Normal-order” means that procedure arguments get evaluated later and only if needed (lazy). He defines […]
Uncontrolled inputs are input elements that have their state stored strictly in the browser document object model (DOM). They behave like vanilla HTML inputs that you create without using a framework like React. Uncontrolled (out of control? lol) inputs There’s a couple of ways you can create uncontrolled inputs. The first is to leave out […]