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List of algorithms requested on Wikipedia - if you know one, do your share (wikipedia.org)
34 points by andreyf on Jan 30, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Which person on earth knows the most computer science algorithms? (Let's restrict to algorithms on Wikipedia.)


Just forward the request to Donald Knuth, I'm sure he'll max out the wikipedia page length...


Knuth would not be verbose. He has a penchant for elegance, terseness and expressiveness.


I meant with the length of the list, not with the individual entries.


I hope that was intentional wordplay. If not, I'll just pretend.


There was an anecdote posted by someone here a while that showed Knuth isn't very comfortable editing Wikipedia -- after a lecture Knuth gave, someone was talking to him and Knuth asked that person to fix some mistakes on his Wikipedia page.

And I realize that per WP policy that is probably a proper thing to do as self-edits are frowned on, but that wasn't what Knuth was going for.




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