The tortoise & hare algorithm [1] was not just discovered by some random PhD student, but by Robert Floyd, who won a Turing award. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org

The tortoise & hare algorithm [1] was not just discovered by some random PhD student, but by Robert Floyd, who won a Turing award. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd's_Tortoise_and_Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd's_Tortoi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Floyd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Floyd