Talk:Hamming numbers: Difference between revisions
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Just for the record, I would like to reclaim authorship of that snippet of pseudocode from the DDJ discussion back then, quoted in the Python section that apparently started this whole page. :) No consequences other than to state it here for the record - that link is broken now, gone dead after DDJ moved their blog system to some "new implementation with new and exciting features" which included losing all the old contents apparently.
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
:Thanks for the original inspiration :-)<br>--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 21:41, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
::Thank ''you'' for getting inspired and making this page happen! :) The book in question is Edsger Dijkstra, "A Discipline of Programming", Prentice-Hall, [http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cs410aph/Lectures/Smalltalk%20II/Dijkstra%20on%20Hamming's%20Problem.pdf chap. 17 "An Exercise Attributed to R.W.Hamming"], [http://i.imgur.com/tPygG.gif pg. 132]. -- [[User:WillNess|WillNess]] 17:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
== "Cyclic generator variant #1" not efficient ==
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