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Knuth's Fascicle 3b Available
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Knuth is making progress on volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming. Another fascicle is available. More news here."
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The Community should write Knuth's Art of Computer Programming? The series people have enough trouble *reading*?
This is perhaps the finest troll of all time.
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With the exception that Knuth's work makes sense.
Some of the exercies would serve as topics for a PhD thesis (and are marked as such).
Like the one that asks: Prove that there is no solution for a^n+b^n=c^n for n>2
how long until
With the exception that fewer people will die because of such controversies in Knuth' case, because there aren't too many militant guerilla groups fighting for the right way to do seminumerical algorithms.
That's the problem with kids today: no priorities, no gumption!
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Like the one that asks: Prove that there is no solution for a^n+b^n=c^n for n>2
If only Addison-Wesley would print the volumes of TAoCP with bigger margins, we might have an answer to that already!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
With the exception that fewer people will die because of such controversies in Knuth' case, because there aren't too many militant guerilla groups fighting for the right way to do seminumerical algorithms.
All of a sudden I'm feeling rather inspired... does anyone want to start one with me?
I've had this sig for three days.
Perhaps they'll publish an 'Art of Computer Programming...For Dummies' someday. :)