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Re:HAKMEM (1972) by enriquto on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:20AM (#15372312)
try the continuous logarithms now! they are very beautiful and more natural to implement in modern computers
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Re:HAKMEM (1972) by hakmem on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:44AM (#15372403)
Could you point me to a reference?
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Re:HAKMEM (1972) by enriquto on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:03AM (#15372469)
this is actually the sole appendix of HAKMEM, (and one of my favorite text files ever)

https://perl.plover.com/classes/cftalk/INFO/gosper.txt

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Re:HAKMEM (1972) by hakmem on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:25PM (#15374830)
Guessed it but you wrote "continuous" instead of "continued" :) I was excited about something new ;)

And yes, this text is gold. Bill Gosper is the Hunter S. Thompson of science.

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Re:HAKMEM (1972) by enriquto on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:43PM (#15374895)
yes, of course I meant "continued" (this is a common error by speakers of latin languages since we use the same word for both things)
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Re:HAKMEM (1972) by hakmem on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:52PM (#15374926)
Yeah, this is Hacker News.
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