| The complexity of songs |
[Oct. 7th, 2005|05:33 pm]
Arvind Narayanan
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Knuth's The complexity of songs is absoulutely hilarious (ACM link requires subscription, free mirror).
Here's a sample:The coefficient of sqrt(n) was further improved by a Scottish farmer named O. Macdonald, whose construction appears in Lemma 2.
The construction in question, of course, being "Old MacDonald had a farm" :-) |
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