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		YuriNiyazov on Nov 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger... The "Beware the Alan Turing Fetish" link doesn't point to an existing page anymore.

jgrahamc on Nov 16, 2023 [–]

Ah. It was an appeal to people to stop naming everything after Turing because the UK went a bit Turing mad for a while.

nicholassmith on Nov 16, 2023 | | [–]

A wise move to stop the UK becoming accidentally Turing complete.

ykonstant on Nov 16, 2023 | | [–]

A phenomenon one could aptly call Turing Mania (TM).

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