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Risch's decision procedure for integration, not surprisingly,
uses a recursion on the number and type of the extensions from the
rational functions needed to represent the integrand. Although the
algorithm follows and critically depends upon the appropriate structure
of the input, as in the case of multivariate factorization, we cannot
claim that the algorithm is a natural one. In fact, the creator of
differential algebra, Ritt, committed suicide in the early 1950's,
largely, it is claimed, because few paid attention to his work. Probably
he would have received more attention had he obtained the algorithm as well.
-- Joel Moses, "Algorithms and Complexity", ed. J.F. Traub
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Linux Computers: 632 of 1023 |
Row, row, row your bits, gently down the stream...
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Linux Computers: 633 of 1023 |
Save energy: Drive a smaller shell.
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Linux Computers: 634 of 1023 |
Save gas, don't use the shell.
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Linux Computers: 635 of 1023 |
Save yourself! Reboot in 5 seconds!
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Linux Computers: 636 of 1023 |
Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout.
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Linux Computers: 637 of 1023 |
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
-- Ken Thompson
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Linux Computers: 638 of 1023 |
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
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Linux Computers: 639 of 1023 |
Scientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question.
They had worked for months gathering one each of every computer that was
built. Finally the big day was at hand. All the computers were linked
together. They asked the question, "Is there a God?". Lights started
blinking, flashing and blinking some more. Suddenly, there was a loud
crash, and a bolt of lightning came down from the sky, struck the
computers, and welded all the connections permanently together. "There
is now", came the reply.
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Linux Computers: 640 of 1023 |
Scotty: Captain, we din' can reference it!
Kirk: Analysis, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Captain, it doesn't appear in the symbol table.
Kirk: Then it's of external origin?
Spock: Affirmative.
Kirk: Mr. Sulu, go to pass two.
Sulu: Aye aye, sir, going to pass two.
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