[TUHS] Re: Fwd: Trove of CSTR's

[Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>]

That CSTR number 1 is nicely formatted, is that troff?

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 07:18:13PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> It might amuse you, or maybe you don't care, but when I was a grad student
> I gave my Pascal students the traveling saleman problem.  I told them how
> hard it was (NP-hard) and said if you can find a solution that works in
> polynomial time, I'll dedicate my life to you to get you a Nobel Prize.
> I was too green to know about Turing awards.
> 
> I had a math guy in the class who called me up, land lines, at 3am on a
> Sunday morning (Saturday night so he was working on this instead of going
> out to have fun).  Screamed at me that he had it.  He didn't.
> 
> Still fun to get the kids thinking.  Seems like Kernighan and Lin thought
> harder.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 11:30:42AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote:
> > I didn't realize Kernighan and Lin was CSTR number 1. Cool. That's an
> > important paper.
> > 
> > -rob
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 9:38???AM Warren Toomey via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > All, I got this e-mail and thought many of you would appreciate the link.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Warren
> > >
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Poul-Henning Kamp -----
> > >
> > > I stumbled over this:
> > >
> > >         https://www.telecomarchive.com/lettermemo.html
> > >
> > > is the TUHS crew aware of that resource ?
> > >
> > > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > >
> 
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