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scandox on Jan 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

"A knowledge of the Science of Number is of minor importance; skill in the Art of Reckoning is absolutely indispensible."

I laughed out loud at that.

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