Thursday, May 06, 2010
Lunch with Knuth
I got to have lunch with Don Knuth and Frank and his other students today. He talked about many things, most interesting to me were the organ and ZDDs.
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...he imagined substituting for all the clocks of Europe a more honest machine, a finely threaded spiral of three dimensions, that would signify not only the coming and going of day and night, but that no single day and no single night would ever return. -- Mark Helprin
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