JackFr

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JackFr · Jan 20, 2020
Dan Simmons’ novel “Drood”
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JackFr · Nov 22, 2021
Just read his introduction to generating pseudo-random numbers or his sketch of a proof of Benfords law in Seminumerical Algorithms. Excellent stuff.
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JackFr · Nov 22, 2021
For moderately impractical, look at tape sorting in Sorting and Searching.
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