Re: "The art of computer programming" by Knuth

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:50:45 GMT, New Guy wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:00:26 +0200, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>>larhamr@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>>> mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would join it, although I'm not sure how keen I would be on
>>>> solving exercises. But that remains to be seen. So go ahead and
>>>> create it, post some seed messages to get the discussions started,
>>>> announce it here and wait and see if there's any interest.
>>>
>>> The term exercises may be misleading when referring to
>>> TAOCP. These are given rating numbers which range over:
>>>
>>> 00 Immediate
>>> 10 Simple (one minute)
>>> 20 Medium (quarter hour)
>>> 30 Moderately hard
>>> 40 Term project
>>> 50 Research problem
>>>
>>> In my copy of "Fundamental Algorithms" which is vol 1 of
>>> TAOCP, in the examples of problem ratings it has FLT as
>>> a 50.
>>
>>It has been rated down to HM45 in mine.

> HM45 does not appear in the rating scale above. Please let me know
> what it means.

HM means the solution involves higher math, and 45 is to be interpolated
between 40 and 50 in the indicated scale.


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