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Re:Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort? (2023) by Jtsummers on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:36AM (#38444391)
Yes. He has a system for assigning difficulty ratings to exercises. I don't have the books at hand, but the highest level were open research problems, potentially suitable for PhD work and the like.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort? (2023) by m463 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:57PM (#38452730)
> He has a system for assigning difficulty ratings

He's like a depth-first system guy... I suspect he only planned the 7 volumes because it was a requirement to start out wide.

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