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I know some of those words.

• saagarjha 7y ago
  Hopefully by the end of today you can know something about all of them!
• taurath 7y ago
  Tortoise and hare agorithm is an interesting one to look up. You’ll never use it in practice, but it’s clever.
  • rkangel 7y ago
    Anecdatum, but I've used it on an embedded target to check that datastructures loaded from flash didn't get corrupted.
• gknoy 7y ago
  When reading the story, I thought, "well of course that's the solution ...", but then couldn't recall ever learning it. I'm grateful that someone shared the name, as Wikipedia's explanation is surprisingly clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd's_Tortoise_and_Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd's_Tortoi...