> I have Erdos number 2, and Charles is the only 
> other Erdos 2 holder that I know.

Eugene, don't you know me?  Also, someone who lives 
in your neighborhood also is Erdos 2.  He goes by 
the name Donald Knuth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Erd%C5%91s_number_2



----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, January 6, 2007 2:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Dyadic Transpose

> 
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Roger Hui wrote:
> 
> > Dyadic transpose has been famously inscrutable
> > since the days of APL\360.
> >
> 
> Just the other day Jeanne and I were invited to Charles Brenner's  
> home in Oakland, and I am reminded that he was the author of the  
> first dyadic transpose. First he wrote a high-level APL model, 
> next  
> an assembly-language level APL model, and finally the 360 assembly 
> 
> language version. Somewhere I have a printout of these.
> 
> I have Erdos number 2, and Charles is the only other Erdos 2 
> holder  
> that I know.
> 
> Charles is a Stanford graduate, as are Larry Breed and Roger 
> Moore.  
> He spent some years in England, supporting himself by playing in  
> bridge games for money. We were both in the Iverson group at IBM  
> Research. He visited Jeanne and me in Media, Pennsylvania when I  
> worked in the APL group there (1971-74). He played his violin when 
> he  
> visited us.


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