I loved the punchline to the story. Someone decides to write an algorithm to compute a few tables, works a while on an algorithm to compute them efficiently, in

I loved the punchline to the story. Someone decides to write an algorithm to compute a few tables, works a while on an algorithm to compute them efficiently, in the end gives up and brute-forces it very inefficiently, then discovers that it takes only 2 seconds to run. And the punchline: there's an article on Wikipedia with all of the values pre-computed!