A while ago, I wrote an article about an interesting problem with an even more interesting story. Back in the 80s, Donald Knuth was asked to write a code that solves this problem: Knuth came up with…

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Better Programming

The post explores a problem and its solution presented by Donald Knuth in the 80s, along with an alternative solution provided by Doug McIlroy. It discusses the shortcomings of the original solution and proposes improvements to optimize the algorithm. The post also provides the code in Rust to solve the problem efficiently.

A Little Bit of Rust