#donald_knuth — Public Fediverse posts

>>> The word “hexadecimal,” which has crept into our language even more recently, is a mixture of Greek and Latin stems; more proper terms would be “senidenary” or “sedecimal” or even “sexadecimal,” but the latter is perhaps too risqué for computer programmers.

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Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
http://tom7.org/bovex/
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Computer Scientist Donald Knuth Can’t Stop Telling Stories | Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/

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