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From: davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Curry)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: mathematical tricks
Message-ID: <4401@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 88 14:02:40 GMT
References: <547@palladium.UUCP> <14878@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Dave Curry)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <14878@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes:
>[]
>>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.
	[etc...]
> 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.

HAKMEM is not out of print; at least it wasn't last year when I ordered
my copy.  Send $3.50 to:

	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
	Massachussetts Institute of Technology
	545 Technology Square
	Cambridge, MA 02139

Ask for a copy of AI Memo #239, "HAKMEM".

There's all sorts of useful and interesting stuff in here, and also lots
of relatively useless (outdated) stuff.  But it makes fascinating reading
anyway.

--Dave Curry