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I took it as a reference to Knuth: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf [PDF] page 7 of the PDF, 5 of the classroom note.

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