6 posts with tag Rust

Static Lifetimes and Factories

Some Rust values, particularly string literals, persist beyond their variable's scope, and how this behavior enables factory-like patterns.

· 3 minutes reading time

Internal Rate of Return Calculation

Deconstructing the math of investment: estimate the annualized rate of return with the IRR algorithm and its Rust implementation.

· 12 minutes reading time

Entering the Battlesnake arena

It's an online game where programs play against each other. My program needs survival strategies!

· 14 minutes reading time

Text scrambler

A text is still readable if you re-arrange the letters of every word, but leave the first and last character in place.

· 4 minutes reading time

Working with Rust's num-bigint

Rust is my new programming language project. A problem called for big integers, so my fight with the crate num-bigint began.

· 4 minutes reading time

Cumulative standard normal distribution

Easy calculation of probabilities using a computed z-table.

· 2 minutes reading time