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Knuthian

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

Adjective

Knuthian (not comparable)

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

Origin of Knuthian

From Knuth + -ian.

Questions about Knuthian

What does Knuthian mean?
Knuthian means of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.
What part of speech is Knuthian?
Knuthian is an adjective.

Words near Knuthian in the dictionary

  1. Knute
  2. Knuth
  3. Knuth equivalence
  4. Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm
  5. Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
  6. Knuthian
  7. Knuths
  8. knuts
  9. Knutsford
  10. Knutson
  11. Knutsons

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