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Disputing Dijkstra, and birthdays in base 2

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Mark Guzdial takes issue with Dijkstra's metaphors, while Joel C. Adams considers how birthdays might differ if based on binary numbers.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 3
March 2021
115 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3452024
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Published: 22 February 2021
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