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A calculator app? Anyone could make that by Chad Nauseam, esquire - I love the story about how Hans Boehm and friends developed a mind-blowing approach called recursive real arithmetic for numbers like pi and (sqrt 2). The post details various symptom -> problem definition -> alternative solutions -> solution cycles that the team met along the way and should be required reading for programmers.
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