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		mahmud on June 4, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, S... Good find? [Edit: I just picked a computationally relevant number that approximates the patent counter circa the epoch.]

bk on June 4, 2009 | [–]

I was just flying by HN on a busy day. Syntax parsing: success. Semantic parsing: error. Looks like I failed the Turing test... I'm a bot. Damn. ;)

omail on June 4, 2009 | [–]

Way off. That patent is from 1912.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

randallsquared on June 4, 2009 | [–]

Right order of magnitude; close enough. ;)

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