Knuthian

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adjective

Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.

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Meanings

adjectiveKnuthian (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputerOf or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.

    This page lists bugs in the original (Knuthian) TeX distribution which have been received since the last tune-up[.]

    2024 October 26 (last accessed), “Pending bugs for original TeX”, in tug.org
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    The purpose of this paper is to present an algebraic treatment of Knuth's approach to the specification of the semantics of context-free languages. Knuthian systems, hereinafter called K-systems, have been called declarative semantics, K-grammars and attributed grammars.

    1976, Laurian M. Chirica, David F. Martin, “An algebraic formulation of Knuthian semantics”, in 17th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (SFCS), →DOI, internal citations omitted

Origin

From Knuth + -ian.

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