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chris_wot
on Nov 14, 2012
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Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGo...
kNuthMagicNumber?
surine
on Nov 14, 2012
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Looks like golden ratio (phi, about 1.618) * 2^30. Maybe something to do with Knuth's Surreal Numbers? (
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/sn.html
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praptak
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Maybe the answer to this question sheds some light on that:
http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/9639/how-did-knu...
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