I don't have access to the 1968 edition, but would like to add that
while the link to APLQA.htm#Knuth renders OK in Firefox, the symbols are
messed up in Safari and Chrome on my iMac, but OK in both those browsers
on my iPad... Dunno why, just saying.
On 2013/07/02 13:39 , Eric Iverson wrote:
The quote (below as taken from your link) appears in the 1968 edition.
The notation [x] is often used elsewhere for one or the other of these
functions, usually the former; the notation above, which are due to
K.E. Iverson, are more useful, because both functions occur about
equally often in practice. The function ⌊x⌋ is sometimes called the
entier function, from the French word for “integer”.
There is a small difference. The 1968 edition has: "...the notations
above...". (note the s).
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#Knuth
Does anyone have the original edition of Knuth's *The Art of Computer
Programming*, Volume 1, published in 1968? If so, can you please tell me
whether the above quotation occurs in that edition?
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