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Is this the same Luhn that brought us the Luhn checksum for checking the validity of credit card numbers?

• eesmith 2y ago
  Yes. Stop words are also attributed to him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word#History_of_stop_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word#History_of_stop_word...
  • Animats 2y ago
    Also KWIC indices, hashing, ...[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn
    • jll29 2y ago
      Yes, the same Hans Peter Luhn (German-born U.S.-American researcher mostly with IBM R&D - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn). He also single-handedly invented automatic document summarization and knowledge management.
      • okabarack 2y ago
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