The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching

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JackFrNov 22, 2021

Just read his introduction to generating pseudo-random numbers or his sketch of a proof of Benfords law in Seminumerical Algorithms. Excellent stuff. For moderately impractical, look at tape sorting in Sorting and Searching.

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