🚀 go-pugleaf

Dan Bernstein writes:

   Anyone who reads Knuth (which, I gather, has fallen out of favor among
   computer scientists, as their students no longer know enough math to
   understand the first two pages) will find out ...

Those volumes are not out of favor, but they are out-of-date by a
decade and a half, not to mention the use a prehistoric notation to illustrate
(and I use the term loosely) some of the algorithms. Actually, exhaustive
math and detail are the things that make the boring "mix" scraps almost
tolerable.

oz
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