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Harold Abelson

“In testing primality of very large numbers chosen at random, the chance of stumbling upon a value that fools the Fermat test is less than the chance that cosmic radiation will cause the computer to make an error in carrying out a "correct" algorithm. Considering an algorithm to be inadequate for the first reason but not for the second illustrates the difference between mathematics and engineering.”

Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
tags: 1996
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson
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