Re: FFT Speeds

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: FFT Speeds
Date	2020-04-03 12:39 +0200
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On 03/04/2020 10:30, Rick C wrote:
> On Friday, April 3, 2020 at 3:12:52 AM UTC-4, David Brown wrote:
>>
>> (I think it was Knuth who said the biggest reason to stop using ones'
>> complement is that so few people get the apostrophe in the right place!)
> 
> Sounds like an xkcd joke.
> 

I don't have a reference to it, but it is certainly believable as the 
kind of thing Knuth would say.  He had both the sense of humour ("I 
can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the 
fonts on the menu") and the obsession about typographic details to have 
said something on those lines.  And people regularly spell it incorrectly.

It is, of course, equally believable that the quotation is a myth, or a 
misattribution.

He certainly /did/ write about the apostrophe:

Donald Knuth, that doyen of computer science, says in Art of Computer 
Programming, Vol 2.:

     Detail-oriented readers and copy-editors should notice the position 
of the apostrophe in terms like "two's complement" and "ones' 
complement": a two's complement number is complemented with respect to a 
single power of 2, whereas a ones' complement number is complemented 
with respect to a long sequence of 1s. Indeed, there is also a twos' 
complement notation, which has radix 3 and complementation with respect 
to (2...22) (base 3).

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FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-03-30 12:11 -0700
  Re: FFT Speeds David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-30 21:50 +0200
    Re: FFT Speeds Stef <stef33d@yahooI-N-V-A-L-I-D.com.invalid> - 2020-03-31 09:33 +0200
  Re: FFT Speeds dalai lamah <antonio12358@hotmail.com> - 2020-03-31 16:14 +0200
    Re: FFT Speeds Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-04-01 12:07 +1100
      Re: FFT Speeds Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-03-31 18:41 -0700
        Re: FFT Speeds Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-04-01 13:40 +1100
          Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-03-31 20:53 -0700
            Re: FFT Speeds Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-04-01 18:45 +1100
            Re: FFT Speeds Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2020-04-01 17:32 +0100
              Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-01 12:20 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2020-04-02 09:40 +0100
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 02:00 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds upsidedown@downunder.com - 2020-04-02 12:50 +0300
              Re: FFT Speeds Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-04-02 08:02 -0400
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 11:16 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2020-04-02 21:33 +0300
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 12:39 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-04-02 20:33 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 20:43 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds upsidedown@downunder.com - 2020-04-03 09:34 +0300
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-03 01:29 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-04-03 12:23 +0200
                Re: FFT Speeds Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-04-03 21:48 +1100
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-03 10:38 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds Clive Arthur <cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> - 2020-04-04 11:50 +0100
                Re: FFT Speeds David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-04-03 09:12 +0200
                Re: FFT Speeds Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-04-03 01:30 -0700
                Re: FFT Speeds David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-04-03 12:39 +0200
          Re: FFT Speeds Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-04-01 10:43 -0700
            Re: FFT Speeds Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-04-02 13:26 +1100
      Re: FFT Speeds Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2020-04-01 17:27 -0400

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