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		jkush on April 5, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tupper's Self-Referential Formula Other than using this as an example in C.S courses, would this be applicable or useful for anything?

kf on April 5, 2007 [–]

No, but it's pretty cool.

"The formula itself is a general purpose method of decoding a bitmap stored in the constant n"

aston on April 5, 2007 | | [–]

Although you need to tweak the constants (that 17) depending on the height.

jkush on April 5, 2007 | | [–]

oh it's definitely cool. I'm just thinking about ways I can make this useful.

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