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the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Huh, I thought it was named after Al Gorithm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this more accurately understood as Mohammad son of Algorithm?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I thought the boss that came after Knuth was John Conway, due to Knuth's up-arrows vs Conway's chained arrows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought we got algorithm from al-gore-ithm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My algorithms could be considered gore

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Algorithm, alchemy, algebra, alcohol. I'm seeing a pattern

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

al- is Arabic for "the", and English usually takes these loanwords with the article included.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I read a book in 6th grade math class called "A Gebra Named Al" that explained most of this.

There were chemys named Al in that forest, iirc. I imagine they know a cohol or two named Al, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

allergy? Al Dente?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

ala carte?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Al must be stopped before he does any more damage!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Blind Al helps Deadpool though????

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