[Haskell-cafe] Detecting Cycles in Datastructures

Andrew Pimlott andrew at pimlott.net
Sun Nov 27 01:11:40 EST 2005


On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 02:27:06AM +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> [You should read some of his papers, for instance "the most unreliable 
> techique in the world to compute pi". I was ROTFL when I saw the title 
> and reading it was an eye-opener and fun too.]

In addition to being clever and terribly funny, the conclusion
foreshadows (inspired?) later work on Enron [1].

Andrew

[1] http://www.haskell.org/humor/enron.html


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