Re: filling area by color atack safety - worst memory size

Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:47:11 -0700
Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:

This topic has been more interesting that I was expecting, and
also more challenging.

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That's not the first time in my practice where problems with
simple formulation begots interesting challenges.
Didn't Donald Knuth wrote 300 or 400 pages about sorting and
still ended up quite far away from exhausting the topic?

In my copy of volume 3 of TAOCP, the chapter on sorting takes up
388 pages.  On the other hand, only 108 pages of that deals with
what we normally think of as sorting algorithms today, and even
that part is longer than it needs to be because of Knuth's
exhaustive (and exhausting) writing style.  Don Knuth would
never write a book in the style of The C Programming Language.