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Games, Diversions & Perl Culture

Errata for Games, Diversions & Perl Culture

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 90
3rd paragraph, 6th line

The size of the DNA string is falsely given as 3x109. The power sign between 10 and 9
is missing. The correct length is then 3x10^9, which is consistent with the rest of
the sentence ("... some three gigabytes of storage space ... ")

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 308
line15

The Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm for-loop's iterator is incorrectly stated.

As stated:

for ($i = @$array; -$i;){

This should read

for ($i = @$array; --$i;){

 Anonymous  May 25, 2010