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What a nice comment. Indeed, it feels like it was just waiting for you to find it. That is a rather nice ritual, I think I will use it now to motivate myself to learn Scala.

Nice! And what a beautiful website! Below the surface it's all the division with constant trick.

I doubt it would have unlooped itself from re-counting the steps in Program D and calculating the complexity of the algorithm. I couldn't get it to do it with a weeks worth of Clau…

I'm happy to see someone commenting on Knuth's note. Don't worry, you probably won't need to correct anything unless you have a computer with an odd radix :)

It probably wouldn't help, and TAOCP from the beginning is too many pages. It would help to read the division algorithm chapter. I introduce my own notation from medium->small divi…

You are absolutely right. My mistake, the MIX computed the trial quotient in step 043 in a saturated way (which was enough to control the bug, thus my comment). It does indeed loop…

What a lovely story

Thank you!

Thank you, i'm flattered!

Thank you! Honestly, while waiting for the check I wondered what it would be, and 0x$1.00 feels just right. The name in the book came unexpectedly, it's really a reward on its own.…

Thank you! Indeed it's the infamous Step D3. In my opinion, with the new changes and the new Theorem B, this step will feel more natural, because it's essentially extending the 2/1…

I beg to differ. A loop would also call for additional run-time analysis. And Knuth changed Step D3, if it were a loop he wouldn't have had to. Additionally, there is no loop in Pr…

Thank you for letting me now, but I cannot replicate the issue on Firefox. There are some issues with math and the animations not breaking on mobile, which I am working on repairin…

It can still be cashed in, though not in any bank, you need to contact Knuth beforehand. For me it will stay framed on the wall.

I was looking forward to uninstalling that forsaken app.

I found a bug in Algorithm D, the long division algorithm in Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming". It was discussed on HN a couple of times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

How are we going to encrypt that?

The linked article mentions the Riemann hypothesis, but the author claims to have proven the Landau-Siegel conjecture https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03689-2 , which is …

What's Figma?

I'm surprised that people consider this worthy of begin published on a semi-serious blog post https://www.poshenloh.com/quadratic/ .

right click > copy image > paste somewhere Works for me :) (I pasted in Telegram FYI)

Apart from Omega's and FINA's statements that Cavic touched first, but Phelps was the first to trigger the mechanism with enough force, you can find the photos here https://static0…

Regarding the swimming issue, there is no underwater photo at the website which you linked, but one can google it, and it clearly shows that Phelps came in second. Arguments were m…