[VA] SRC #012a - Then and Now: Probability

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(10-16-2022 10:25 AM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  The only advanced concept in use is 2-dimensional arrays, which makes me think that this could be ported to any SHARP pocket above the 1211...

Except that... Memory requirements are huge. The needed registers seem in the range of 2.5*R^2 at bare minimum. For R=30 you need something like 18Kb if each register takes 8 bytes, plus extra variables, plus program stack... So you need something like 20Kb RAM. This rules out the 41, the 42, the SHARP pc-1261... You need a 32K machine basically!

I ported Fernando del Rey's BASIC program to my Sharp PC-1500 with 8K memory module (10k total storage). It ran the size 5, step 6 case easily. I ran a 10/20 case (took just a couple minutes - didn't time it). When I try the suggested size 30, 60 steps case, the computer unsurprisingly gives an out of memory error. Trial and error shows that I could go up to a grid size of 23.