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From: Larry Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] JF Reiser
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 11:48:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19DCAD9F-4047-4C9D-95C4-AEDE7E6696D3@serissa.com> (raw)

I never saw his 32V work, but I reimplemented his additive random number generator in my own work.  

Not too many people can write a 35 page PhD thesis.

Fewer can do it for Knuth.

-Larry



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