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Article #598Recursive notes
From: by... John The Squid Byrd
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 21:11
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 21:11
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In article <1989Dec23....@cs.rochester.edu> col...@cs.rochester.edu (Sean Colbath) writes: >On the topic of hidden jokes in books, textbooks or otherwise, if you look >in the index of Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman's _Data_Structures_ under >recursion, you see a listing of about 10 page numbers including the number >of the page in the index that you are currently looking at... This is true! In the '87 edition there is a self-referencing index note for recursion. Sorta reminds me of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game by Infocom-- >FOOTNOTE 8 This is the famous recursive footnote (Footnote 8). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Byrd ! by...@husc7.harvard.edu ! "Uh, could you repeat the question?" Q-Link: John Byrd ! - Sid Vicious CompuServe: 74506,3612 ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!husc7!byrd From: by...@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (John "The Squid" Byrd) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Recursive notes Keywords: genius Message-ID: <1165@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 7 Jan 90 21:11:42 GMT References: <7407@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1989Dec23.065852.441@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: ne...@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: byrd@husc7.UUCP (John "The Squid" Byrd) Organization: Harvard University Science Center Cambridge, MA Lines: 22 Posted: Sun Jan 7 22:11:42 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit