factor/library/math/constants.facts

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USING: help kernel-internals math ;
HELP: cells "( m -- n )"
{ $values { "m" "an integer" } { "n" "an integer" } }
{ $description "Computes the number of bytes corresponding to " { $snippet "m" } " CPU operand-sized cells." } ;
HELP: cell-bits "( m -- n )"
{ $values { "m" "an integer" } { "n" "an integer" } }
{ $description "Computes the number of bits corresponding to " { $snippet "m" } " CPU operand-sized cells." } ;
HELP: i "( -- i )"
{ $values { "i" "the imaginary unit" } } ;
HELP: -i "( -- -i )"
{ $values { "i" "the negated imaginary unit" } } ;
HELP: e "( -- e )"
{ $values { "e" "base of natural logarithm" } } ;
HELP: pi "( -- pi )"
{ $values { "pi" "circumference of circle with diameter 1" } } ;
HELP: epsilon "( -- epsilon )"
{ $values { "epsilon" "smallest floating point value you can add to 1 without underflow" } } ;
HELP: first-bignum "( -- n )"
{ $values { "n" "smallest positive integer not representable by a fixnum" } } ;
HELP: most-positive-fixnum "( -- n )"
{ $values { "n" "largest positive integer representable by a fixnum" } } ;
HELP: most-negative-fixnum "( -- n )"
{ $values { "n" "smallest negative integer representable by a fixnum" } } ;