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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: winning ways
Message-ID: <1230@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 13:56:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 13:56:36 1986
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In article <514@aurora.UUCP>, jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:

>      The book by Berlekamp (), Conway (), and Guy (), is highly recommended
> for its refreshing style, and merits discussion in the likes of Scientific
> American's Mathematical Recreations.

A year or two ago Academic Press offered a paperback edition, cheap.  If
you hurry they might let you take them up.

(In case you're wondering, the pb edition mentions that Col positions
exist with arbitrarily large denominators.)


		"Get numb with Numbers!"
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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