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I have never found anything professionally useful in “Seminumerical Algorithms”, but Knuth’s writing is clear and concise that I go back reread the parts which
by JackFr 7y ago
I have never found anything professionally useful in “Seminumerical Algorithms”, but Knuth’s writing is clear and concise that I go back reread the parts which I just found interesting.
(In particular I love why numbers with lower initial digits are more ‘common’ than others, and tests for randomness.)
- JackFr 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
- peteri 7y agoI used it in pre-internet days to write BCD multiply & divide routines.
- commandlinefan 7y agoWhile I was reading those chapters I thought, I'll bet the people who implemented, say, the Java standard library would have spent a lot of time reviewing these chapters. Later I noticed some comments in the Javadoc for the Java standard library that refer back to TAOCP, so I guessed correctly ;)