Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of

You know, you can still hear D Knuth in recorded seminars at Stanford, and on other sites (look him up on webofstories.com) - on one he tests the microphone by saying "1, 0 , 1, 0 , 1, 0 ..."

And apparently he has a pipe organ in his house - gotta love it!

And he IS a Turing Award winner.

Vern

On 9/30/2014 1:18 PM, Roger Harman wrote:

Always wanted to collect those books but never did.....
Betcha he did not solve it in RPG though <grin>.

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:16:44 -0500
From: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of

Of course, Donald Knuth has probably solved this already, as well as it
can be - but there is always a chance for a better mousetrap, eh?

On 9/30/2014 11:04 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Raul A Jager W <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you can find an efficient solution, you will deserv a "Nobel price"

More likely, you'll get a Turing Award, which is roughly equivalent to
a Nobel Prize, but for computer science. Or, you might instead get a
Fields Medal if you're young enough; or an Abel Prize if you're not
young enough for the Fields. (Sometimes, the Nobel Prize in economics
amounts to a kind of "math Nobel", so if you do get a Nobel for
solving this, it would be that one.)

John Y.

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