dramaqueen

Well, words, terms, notations and conventions come super cheap in math. You can call/denote "rng" anything you want. You just have to let your readers/interlocutors know about your conventions at the outset which is a standard practice in math anyway. For another thing, "r(u)ng" to me it's no different from writing "colonel" and reading it "kernel" (historical accident aside) :) There's also "lieutenant" which is pronounced " leftenant" in UK.

You pronounce it as "rung".

There's another book from this publisher called Grokking Algorithms. That one left me very impressed. Usually, I don't care for any "simplified/easified/dumbed-down" books because they often feel like a compilation of buzzwords with all the important bits removed. I thought Grokking Algorithms was simple, yet very meaty/substantial if that makes sense.

I am interested in studying Computer Science Theory for the Information Age by Hopcrot and Kanaan[0]. How do these books compare? Is there much overlap between the two? Are they totally different?

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~venkatg/teaching/CStheory-infoage/ho... (PDF)