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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by radicalbyte on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:49PM (#33084008)
You're not the only one. If we're honest most of us buy the series as a mark of status / pride, not out of any plan to actually read it. I mean yeah I do plan to. Probably once I've retired. But that's a long way away :-)
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by leereeves on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:25PM (#33085450)
I use it more like a dictionary. I don't read it from start to finish, but if I need an algorithm for something, I look it up in Knuth.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by jpgvm on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:04PM (#33085947)
This is the function my copy of TAOCP serves. I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough to digest all of it, but when I need something and I want to understand the ground theory behind it then to Knuth I go.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by User23 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:56PM (#33089550)
My most recent use of it was to convince my team that binary search is in fact not a good interview coding question. It's surprisingly tricky and Knuth explains exactly why!
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by lokedhs on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:50AM (#33105221)
The part where he explains how a binary tree can be unbalanced, and when, was really surprising to me. Never assume that just because your accesses are random that the tree will remain balanced on average.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by kragen on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @04:38AM (#33092853)
Consider also CLRS.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by max_ on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:15AM (#33093466)
Whats that?
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by kragen on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:00AM (#33096421)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLRS
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by tmtvl on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:51AM (#33093732)
Initials of the authors of Introduction to Algorithms.
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