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airstrike
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Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
Yeah, I'm way out of my comfort zone here but I found the choice of n and N pretty off-putting
klingonopera
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A typo is only a (sticky) shift away, and not even obvious!
EDIT: ...and compiles, too!
Gene_Parmesan
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They are like that because they essentially transliterated the original Pascal code from the paper. Leaving the variable names as they were in the paper allows for the paper to act as documentation for the code, so to speak.
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