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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
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Subject: Re: Who is Knuth? -- the amazing answer!
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 16:41:48 EST
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In article <529@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) writes:
>Due to overwhelming response:
>
>	Donald Knuth is a professor at Stanford University
>(PHY@SU-AI.ARPA).  He has written three volumes of an encyclopedia of
>Computer Science, called *The Art of Computer Programming*.  The first
>volume is on Fundamental Algorithms, the second is on Seminumerical
>Algorithms, and the third is on Sorting and Searching.  I don't know
>whether Knuth is ever going to finish the series -- he originally
>intended seven volumes, but I hear rumours that the number is going to
>change.  And I hear rumours that he is never going to get back to the
>project.

	Perhaps the first three volumes of the never-to-be-finished Knuth
series are actually episodes I, II, and III of the never-to-be-finished
Lucas Star Wars series.  :-)


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					--MKR

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 And no one is better than you.
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