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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: mathematical tricks
Message-ID: <14878@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 19:05:19 GMT
References: <547@palladium.UUCP>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <547@palladium.UUCP> jjw@palladium.UUCP (John J. Wallace) writes:
>A few years back, a professional computer journal published an article
>full of mathematical one-liners, such as "to round down to a power of
>two, do this," "to find the first one, do this," etc.  I think this was
>Communications of the ACM around 1985, but I'm not sure, and I can't
>find it in *my* archives.
>
>Any help?  When I find this, I will post it on my wall!
 This sounds a lot like the MIT AI Labs "Hakmem" memo. I used to have a
copy, but I think it was borrowed. Out of print, too, I believe. Full of
neat tricks.


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