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On 9/5/2024 8:18 AM, Hans Bezemer wrote:

> Given that the area of the circle doesn't change - why recalculate that 
> every time?

Excellent observation.

Would you have any videos talking about Forth locals? You and dxf are 
far more adept at stack manipulations than I. I'm thinking I can get a 
word up and working with locals and then convert to manual stack 
manipulations afterwards if necessary.

When is it necessary? dxf showed a word w/o locals to have ~%30 fewer 
instructions than a word with locals. Is that a common occurrence?