Use jQuery to Detect Container Overflow?

$.fn.hasOverflow = function() { var $this = $(this); var $children = $this.find(‘*’); var len = $children.length; if (len) { var maxWidth = 0; var maxHeight = 0 $children.map(function(){ maxWidth = Math.max(maxWidth, $(this).outerWidth(true)); maxHeight = Math.max(maxHeight, $(this).outerHeight(true)); }); return maxWidth > $this.width() || maxHeight > $this.height(); } return false; }; Example: var $content = $(‘#content’).children().wrapAll(‘<div>’); while($content.hasOverflow()){ … Read more

Why do I get “OverflowError: (34, ‘Result too large’)” or “OverflowError: (34, ‘Numerical result out of range’)” from floating-point exponentiation?

Python floats are neither arbitary precision nor of unlimited size. When k = 349, 16.**k is much too large – that’s almost 2^1400. Fortunately, the decimal library allows arbitrary precision and can handle the size: import decimal decimal.getcontext().prec = 100 def pi(): pi = decimal.Decimal(0) for k in range(350): pi += (decimal.Decimal(4)/(decimal.Decimal(8)*decimal.Decimal(k+1))…)