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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition

by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik
February 1994
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
18h 38m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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A Note on Notation

SOME OF THE SYMBOLISM in this book has not (yet?) become standard. Here is a list of notations that might be unfamiliar to readers who have learned similar material from other books, together with the page numbers where these notations are explained. (See the general index, at the end of the book, for references to more standard notations.)

Notation

Name

Page

ln x

natural logarithm: loge x

276

lg x

binary logarithm: log2 x

70

log x

common logarithm: log10 x

449

ImagexImage

floor: max{ n | n x, integer n }

67

x

ceiling: min ...

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