[Haskell-cafe] New slogan for haskell.org

[Bill Wood]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:55 -0500, Denis Bueno wrote:
   . . .
> More importantly for this discussion, however: Fibonacci heaps have
> nothing to do with calculating the fibonacci numbers, and you don't
> even need to know what the fibonacci sequence is to use fibonacci
> heaps.  (You discover what it is, if you didn't know, when you do a
> complexity analysis of fibonacci heaps, but, that's only useful for
> proving how efficient the heaps can be.)  Therefore, I don't think one
> can successfully argue that fibonacci numbers are important because a
> heap has "Fibonacci" the name in its name.
> 
> Just a nit, but I thought it worth mentioning. =]

That's fair, and Cormen et. al. said pretty much the same thing in Chap.
20.  I think the argument is that the Fibonacci sequence is important to
*understanding* the Fibonacci heap.  Still your point is well taken.

 -- Bill Wood