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From: rawlins@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Gregory J. E. Rawlins)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: More about Manber's
Message-ID: <1991May7.234547.5113@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 04:45:24 GMT
References: <hobbit.673609163@shum>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Indiana University
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In article <hobbit.673609163@shum> hobbit@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (yoav gonen) writes:
>I was looking for a book which will help me will the course : Algorithms that
>I learn in the university. So I bought Manber's. Unfortunately, the book covers
>only 25% of the material that I learned in class.
[further comments deleted]

I quite agree that Manber's book does not cover as much material as, say,
Cormen, Lieserson, and Rivest (a 1000+ page book). Nor does he analyse the
material to the depth of, say, Knuth (a three volume book). But that is not
his purpose. Before buying another book i suggest you read the preface to
the book carefully. I think Manber states fairly clearly his book's niche.
Since he does not misrepresent his purpose i cannot see that you have a case.
	gregory.