Donald Knuth

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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print

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(I'm still looking for the catchiest way to appreciate the number MMXXVI. Exercise 7.2.1.6–122 gives 1234+.5*6+789 and -1+2345*6/7+8+9 and 1+(2/3)*45*67.8-9 ; other suggestions are welcome. The most elegant that I've seen so far is a beauty that was suggested independently by Arnaud Lefebvre and by Evangelos…

Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1

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(I thank Yoshiyuki Kotani for this identity. We'll be able to use the same idea again in 2024 and 2027!)