[Shootout-list] Stuff (when to keep a test)

[Bengt Kleberg]

Isaac Gouy wrote:
>>different people have different "practically important sets of
>>problems".
>>the interesting question is who gets to decided which sets should be
>>in the shootout, and which should be removed?
> 
> 
> What practically meaningless problems are sufficiently interesting to
> motivate people to contribute and improve programs?

i interpret this to mean that the rule is:
only tests that have sufficiently many implementations are allowed into 
the shootout.
that is, with a number or percentage instead of ''sufficiently'', a good 
item for the faq.


>>...deleted
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>>>(The obvious problem benchmark is pidigits because it requires
>>>arbitrary precision arithmetic.)
>>
>>would it not be possible to do arbitrary precision arithmetic in 
>>languages that does not have it built-in, by coding it oneself?
> 
> 
> That's all the Lua BigNum liberary is  http://oss.digirati.com.br/luabignum/

nice to see an agreement.


bengt