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Tom Duff on Duff's device (1988)
I normally do not read comp.lang.c, but Jim McKie told me that `` Duff's device '' had come up in comp.lang.c again. I have lost the version that was sent to netnews in May 1984, but I have reproduced below the note in which I originally proposed the device. (If anybody has a copy of the netnews version, I would…
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| Nov 12, 2017 | Tom Duff on Duff's device (1988) by Insanity | 54 | 18 |
| Aug 9, 2012 | Tom Duff on Duff's Device (1988) by mmphosis | 50 | 20 |
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