In this post, we’re going to try to approximate the error function, which is a very important function in statistics and also a fascinating function overall. I wanted to make this post for a long time now because it combines ideas from mathematics and computer science, and it even introduces a new idea as well! If you are ready, let’s dive in. If you don’t remember, the error function is defined as below.

The first appearance of Electra dates back to 2021. While watching the Truttle1’s AsciiDots video, the idea of developing Electra formed in my head. It wasn’t anything special, so I implemented it using simple switch case statements. It was a stack based 2D language with an additional register named “current value”. It only had four directions, and a limited set of instructions. You can still find the legacy Electra on here.

A couple of nights ago, in the Esolangs Discord server, a user named kepe was trying to solve last years’ Canadian Computing Competition (CCC for short) problems. He couldn’t solve some of them, and most importantly he didn’t know graphs well and the next CCC was the next day. So a thread made to help him. After some time, a “troll” joined the thread (She didn’t want me to use her name.