Talk:Hamming numbers: Difference between revisions

 

Two interesting related observations. One, very minor, I can now explain the spaces in <code>x2=2*h[ i ];</code> in the quoted pseudo-code: the old blog system at DDJ would interpret [i] ... [/i] as markers for ''italics''. Another - for me, somewhat major - is that while I came out with that pseudo-code trying to translate the classic ''Haskell'' merging-the-mappings code back into something C-like in my mind, as it turns out, it is in ''almost exact verbatim correspondence'' with the original Edsger Dijkstra's code in his book (IIRC), which I stumbled upon much later, by chance. (I had a link to it somewhere, will add later.) Amazing how it came back in an almost exact loop, this idea, back to where it started - "to Haskell and back!". Interesting... :) [[User:WillNess|WillNess]] 21:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)