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Re:The square roots of all evil by elpocko on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:11PM (#42345593)
This is like asking for the title of the Bible after a psalm was quoted on a forum for religion.

It's "The Art of Computer Programming", volume 3 (Sorting and searching) by Donald Knuth. HTH

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Re:The square roots of all evil by zahlman on Friday December 06, 2024 @07:23PM (#42346075)
This is Hacker News, not Computer Scientist News.

Knuth's work wasn't part of my programming curriculum in an engineering program, either.

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Re:The square roots of all evil by elpocko on Friday December 06, 2024 @07:44PM (#42346197)
>This is Hacker News, not Computer Scientist News.

Or Basic Internet Search News.

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Re:The square roots of all evil by karmakurtisaani on Saturday December 07, 2024 @11:46AM (#42350927)
Excuse me, but we are hackers, not some fancy elitist people who think for themselves and find out things on their own using some modern internet search tools.
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Re:The square roots of all evil by kergonath on Saturday December 07, 2024 @02:19AM (#42347906)
> This is like asking for the title of the Bible after a psalm was quoted on a forum for religion.

That is…not a great answer, unless you want to reinforce the meme that CS is a cult. Besides, the context you mention is utterly alien to millions of people.

People get born every day, and people learn the basics every day. We should be helping them grow, not gatekeeping. Your second sentence was more than enough.

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