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Thinking outside the box of code (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
How to Write a Non-Trivial Algorithm That Guarantees Your Number Will Not Be Bigger Than Ten
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"I can see where maybe he hearkened to his youth have sit in line waiting for that deli sandwich or something," the writer says. "So what I did is I devised an algorithm that, you know, if I'm changing it from nine to ten, it will guarantee that the number you read will not be any bigger than ten" The next three years or so, three or four years of what we did was all based on that algorithm and studying that algorithm." 'It's a very popular place,' writes author David Weinberger. "'They don't deliver ours to everybody who's sitting there waiting' ... So they've got it figured out as well.'"
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