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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1

by Donald E. Knuth
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
902 pages
34h 20m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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I am grateful to all my friends,and record here and now my most especial appreciationto those friends who, after a decent interval,stopped asking me, “How’s the book coming?”

— PETER J. GOMES, The Good Book (1996)

I at last deliver to the world a Work which I have long promised,and of which, I am afraid, too high expectations have been raised.The delay of its publication must be imputed, in a considerable degree,to the extraordinary zeal which has been shewn by distinguished personsin all quarters to supply me with additional information.

— JAMES BOSWELL, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)

The author is especially grateful to the Addison–Wesley Publishing Companyfor its patience in waiting a full decade for this manuscriptfrom the date ...

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