Knuth's Volume 4 has been pending for my entire computing career (I was a teenage hacker, I'm 46 now). I believe the current plan is that "Volume 4" will actually take up 3 physical volumes. The field has grown faster than Knuth can write it up. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever was relying on some algorithms that were to appear in Volume 4.
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Knuth's Volume 4 has been pending for my entire computing career (I was a teenage hacker, I'm 46 now). I believe the current plan is that "Volume 4" will actually take up 3 physical volumes. The field has grown faster than Knuth can write it up. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever was relying on some algorithms that were to appear in Volume 4.