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pvillanotoday at 6:25 AM1 replyview on HN

This is super cool. I learned a lot playing with the demo. I only knew Horner and Estrin, but I think I've gotten a grasp on most of them.

One small change I'd recommend is for the graph visualization, have a separate source node for each x, x^2, x^4 used. A single x source clutters the graph and hides the structure.


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thomasahletoday at 6:29 AM

Thank you! It was a lot of fun to make the website and see all the methods in practice after having just looked at the theory for a long time :D

> have a separate source node for each x, x^2, x^4 used

Do you mean a graph like this R&W? https://thomasahle.com/fast-polynomials/#ex=bessel&mode=Q&me... there are nodes labeled x2, x4, x8; but it's the output of multiplications, and we want to make the number of mults visually clear.