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Knuth Releases Part Of Volume 4

Posted by michael on from the tortoise-and-hare dept.

Grendel Drago writes: "Donald E. Knuth has released "Pre-Fascicle 2b: Generating all permutations" from TAOCP Volume 4. It will be section 7.2.1.2 of the final work. Oh, and Volume 4 may now fill *four* subvolumes. Send in bugs, get checks for $2.56, tell the grandkids."

2 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Tell your grandkids and they'll lock you up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    (What industry are you talking about? Programming? Cryptology? DNA sequencing?).
    Damn that confusing "programming" topic icon!

    Anyway, any professional programmer who can't identify Knuth (because of TAOCP or TeX), or at the least hasn't heard anecdotes of Knuth's infamous $2.56 reward for finding bugs in TeX and mistakes in his textbooks, ought to be shot.

  2. Re:Tell your grandkids and they'll lock you up by renehollan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Shot?

    Try: shot, hanged, boiled in oil, disemboweled, drawn and quartered, fed to sharks, and then tried for heresy.

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    You could've hired me.