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by chris_wot 4961 days ago
kNuthMagicNumber?
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surine 4961 days ago
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 4961 days ago
Maybe the answer to this question sheds some light on that: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/9639/how-did-knu...
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