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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by Jtsummers on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:32PM (#33084695)
Does Khan Academy cover the math topics of Concrete Mathematics yet? Looking at their list of math courses I don't see a single discrete math course in the bunch.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by BeetleB on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:02PM (#33085125)
Concrete Mathematics has some fairly advanced stuff (e.g. asymptotics) which I doubt Khan Academy covers.
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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by Jtsummers on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:14PM (#33085288)
Right, which was what I was getting at. The person I responded to had written:

> Knuth has even written a book, Concrete Mathematics, that covers these pre-requisites but it might be faster and easier to watch a Khan Academy video!

Which suggests KA as an alternative to CM. Which doesn't follow if it doesn't cover the same material.

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Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ... by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:23PM (#33085416)
I have no idea! I just used it as an example of “educational video on YouTube!” :-)
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