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List of algorithms requested on Wikipedia - if you know one, do your share

• nsrivast 18y ago
  Which person on earth knows the most computer science algorithms? (Let's restrict to algorithms on Wikipedia.)
  • jacquesm 18y ago
    Just forward the request to Donald Knuth, I'm sure he'll max out the wikipedia page length...
    • rw 18y ago
      Knuth would not be verbose. He has a penchant for elegance, terseness and expressiveness.
      • jacquesm 18y ago
        I meant with the length of the list, not with the individual entries.
      • Jebdm 18y ago
        I hope that was intentional wordplay. If not, I'll just pretend.
    • rms 18y ago
      There was an anecdote posted by someone here a while that showed Knuth isn't very comfortable editing Wikipedia -- after a lecture Knuth gave, someone was talking to him and Knuth asked that person to fix some mistakes on his Wikipedia page. And I realize that per WP policy that is probably a proper thing to do as self-edits are frowned on, but that wasn't what Knuth was going for.