> On July 16, 2016 at 4:47 AM Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Peter Olson wrote: > > > I'm a fan of Donald Knuth as well. My funny story is that when I > > was in college, I got an offer from Addison-Wesley to preorder the > > seven volume set "The Art of Computer Programming" for the low. low > > price of $119. It's now more than 40 years later and volumes 5, 6, > > and 7 are still missing :-) I'm glad I didn't take the offer :) > > wait a sec, besides that is a ridicolously low price just for the > volumes he has already written, AFAIK he is on schedule with the > initial writing plan, at least until present volume 4. please check it > yourself, last time I did I saw that he is absolutely on schedule. > But I don't exclude he may have been delayed just recently on vol.4
I actually don't remember a schedule. Agreed, it is a ridiculously low price :-) Is he on schedule? I don't know, but volumes 1, 2, and 3 came out a long time ago, then there was a revision to volume 2, then some time passed, then there was an Internet preprint of volume 4, and now after a long time, I looked on Amazon and found there is a print version of volume 4 and a volume 4b, and ... Long live Donald Knuth! For a fun excursion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs He also talks about knitting formulas in the preface to one or more of the existing volumes. Peter Olson _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
