Street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm ([info]tritium) wrote,
@ 2008-03-12 15:07:00
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Discovery of the day
D. Knuth and W. Wood, "The Potzrebie system of weights and measures," Mad Magazine, vol. 1, no. 33, pp. 36, June 1957.

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[info]catamorphism
2008-03-12 08:09 pm UTC (link)
I knew about this before I knew who Knuth was, actually.

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[info]joshwand
2008-03-14 03:22 am UTC (link)
http://geekz.co.uk/shop/store/show/knuth-tshirt

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[info]dankamongmen
2008-03-16 04:18 pm UTC (link)
I own that shirt! =]

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[info]dankamongmen
2008-03-16 04:19 pm UTC (link)
I assume you're aware of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base

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[info]mwand
2008-03-27 01:15 am UTC (link)
I believe this was Knuth's first published article.

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