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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Many Lines of Code?
I started out as about 20 lines of code, but then I kept having to debug it. And what does the debugging look like on a program with just all numbers? Well, you sit there and you, uh, I don't remember how I got it into the machine, but I think there was a way to punch, punch it on cards. So each, each instruction would be one, one card, or maybe I could get seven instructions on a card, eight instructions. But anyway, so I'm doing this at night when nobody else is around, of course. The first bugs were pretty, you know, on the first night, I was able to get the factors
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