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Knuth Releases Another Part of Volume 4

junge_m writes "Donald Knuth has released another of his by now famous pre-fascicles to Volume 4 of his epic: Pre-fascicle 2c is all about 'Generating all Combinations' supplementing his pre-fascicles 2a and 2b. Furthermore he challenges us all to do more of his daunting exercises and report our success. He thinks we are way too lazy in this respect! So come on slashdot crowd: Do your homework and get the credit from the grandmaster himself!"

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  1. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    W00T!

  2. Feces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. The art of fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    eom

  4. Time to release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my first post!

  5. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree with this post.

    1. Re:MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Holy crapflood, batman!

  6. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everyone knows that No. 1 beat B&H's floor-sweepings taste any day of the week. Including Sunday!

  7. unfortunately... by paradesign · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    my win95 work box has no idea what a *.ps.gz file is or what to do with it. winzip is equally as helpless. even if i did un-gz it, i doubt i have anything that can read a postscript file. so i have two questions...

    how do you go about un-gzing in win95?

    and could some one mirror this in html or txt format?

    --
    I want 2D games back.
  8. Re:MOD PARENT AND PARENT'S PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut up.

  9. MOD PARENT UP. OR DOWN. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not the same AC as the parent, but I'm not sure I agree with him.

  10. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN ONLY!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut up.

    Thanks.

  11. Cool, thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thurber Natalie in a two know what they have poo would have been more than the same for now the steering was broken!

  12. I'm not lazy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's my thyroid condition!

  13. Re:Knuth loosing the /. crowd? by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    unfortunately, no credit is given for karma whoring or redirecting you to mr. goatse.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  14. MOD THIS DOWN - GOAT SEX LINK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent links to the infamous goat sex photo

    1. Re:MOD THIS DOWN - GOAT SEX LINK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No it does not. Moderator, remember: double-edged sword of metamoderation hangs over your head!!

  15. Re:Paying people to find bugs doesn't cost him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You should realize that it's a very shameful statement to make...

  16. Re:This guy is hard core by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well he's not soft core. He may well be XXX.

  17. Re:Reality Check! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And gone too are the days when one checked their spelling, grammar and punctuation.

  18. Re:For the ignorant... like me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fas-ci-cle (fa-sikl) n. Mussolini on ice.

    Thank you. Thank you. I'm here all week.

  19. Taco-snotting is dying by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.

    You dont need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snottings future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there wont be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.

    Lets keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Circle-snotting leader Jeff Homos Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Lets see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of CowboiKneels walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.

    All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.

    Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.

    - poopbot: news for turds, stuff that splatters

  20. what the... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...flying fuck are you talking about? I'd rather eat dirt and shit a brick.