cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545
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Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm
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Isn’t this more accurately understood as Mohammad son of Algorithm?
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I thought the boss that came after Knuth was John Conway, due to Knuth’s up-arrows vs Conway’s chained arrows.
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I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm
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