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Yup. I don't think the similarity is because I'm copying Knuth (I certainly wasn't deliberately doing so); this is a very well known argument and there isn't al
by gjm11 5y ago
Yup. I don't think the similarity is because I'm copying Knuth (I certainly wasn't deliberately doing so); this is a very well known argument and there isn't all that much scope for presenting it very differently.
(Oddly, I think the presentation in the later Concrete Mathematics is worse than in TAOCP; they're trying to make it more approachable but I think just make it a bit more roundabout.)
- leephillips 5y agoOh, absolutely, I realize that. It’s just that I learned this from Knuth so I recognized the derivation, and I thought you’d like to see it, but I see you already know about it.