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13 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 15 December 2010 05:40PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 16 December 2010 12:34:18PM 0 points [-]

Don't know what went wrong there - I have the paper now. Turns out I'm quite wrong, this idea is credited to:

P. van Emde Boas (1990), Machine models and simulations, in Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. A, J. van Leeuwen, ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1–66.