(1972), reprinted as Chapter 11 of Selected Papers on Computer Science (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html) [Changes

(1972), reprinted as Chapter 11 of Selected Papers on Computer Science (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html) [Changes are usually minor but in this case there's an erratum published in 1976, https://doi.org/10.1145/800127.804066 https://doi.org/10.1145/800127.804066 p 108.] Fun fact: to write this paper, Knuth actually learned ancient Akkadian and Sumerian (at least enough to look up dictionaries): > Most of the Babylonian mathematical tablets have never been translated into English. The translations above have been made by comparing the German of [3, 4, 5] with the French [8]; but these two versions actually differ in many details, so the Akkadian and Sumerian vocabularies published in [4, 8, 6] have been consulted in an attempt to give an accurate rendition.