Talk:Elephant in Cairo
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It appears perhaps this article does cite a source: Byte magazine from September 1989. It just needs to be made explicit. Right? --13.13.137.1 23:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Reference added -got that Byte number here, not sure if it's on the right format.--Gerardo 22:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The bracketed comment after the last step of the first algorithm breaks the joke. If you look for the end of Africa then you already have an end condition. The joke is that a tyro doesn't know to make sure there's an end, but the expert creates a known end condition. Read the original Byte version. It's funny to be old enough to have read this when it was published and to see it being not only misrepresented but also to have sort of passed in to folk lore. Chann94501 (talk) 02:45, 12 September 2010 (UTC)