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Interesting. I have a 1973 (1st edition?) copy of Sorting and Searching I picked up at a book sale a couple years ago. In that version chapter 6 starts on page
by anderspitman 7y ago
Interesting. I have a 1973 (1st edition?) copy of Sorting and Searching I picked up at a book sale a couple years ago. In that version chapter 6 starts on page 389, and the typo is not there. I guess it was introduced later.
- ehsankia 7y agoI'm curious, unlike the other two, wouldn't that typo be caught by any sort of automatic grammar checker? Couldn't anyone looking for a Knuth Check just load the text into a decent checker and go through the suggestions to find a valid one?
- aasasd 7y agoIt's probably difficult to deal with a type checker on a programming and math book.
- nickdrozd 7y agoI can't remember where I read this, but I think the first edition of Volume 3 was the last one to be published before the creation of TeX, and so the second edition had to substantially reworked. The typo was probably introduced at that time.