Errata for Understanding Computation
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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
| PDF, ePub |
Page 69
paragraph below the info box about the #tap method |
The name of the method must be #read_string, not #read_string? because it does not have a boolean return value. In the code sample a couple of lines above it is named correctly.
Note from the Author or Editor:
In the paragraph before the "Nondeterministic Finite Automata" heading, the question mark at the end of #read_string? should be deleted. |
sebroeder |
Jun 03, 2013 |
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| PDF |
Page 70
4th paragraph |
The accept states in the figure given are wrong. State 3 and state 5 are shown as accept states while they are not accept states. State 4 is not show as accept state while it actually is an accept state (the only one).
Note from the Author or Editor:
The figure should look like http://computationbook.com/errata/1. Namely:
* The arrow from 3 to 4 should be labelled "a", not "b".
* The arrow from 3 to 5 should be labelled "b", not "a".
* The circle around 3 should have a single-line border, not a double-line border. |
Michel Rijnders |
May 21, 2013 |
May 31, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 77
figure |
State 4 is an accept state, so the circle around the 4 should have a double-line border, not a single-line border. (See http://computationbook.com/errata/2.)
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Tom Stuart
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May 23, 2013 |
May 31, 2013 |
| PDF |
Page 259
Middle paragraph |
Accidentally repeated word: "to to" should be "to" in "Of course, this scheme of encoding a program as a large number is what makes it possible ***to to*** store it on disk,..."
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Jacob Quant |
Aug 08, 2015 |
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