The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A has been published
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Second: the headline is incorrect. The (hardcover edition of) Volume 4A won't be shipping for another week (January 22th.)
Finally: Volume 4A has been available in part for quite some time now (the first fascicles were published in 2005), and in whole for over a year (if you put all the paperback fascicles together.) Still, the publication in hardcover is certainly a milestone.
-- After he finishes vol 4, and re-revises 1-3 again, then 5, and ... perfectionism is nice and all but, he's mortal - I hope he takes that into account.
I'm re-reading Volume 2, section 3 on Trees. On p.320 he makes the off-hand remark General methods for doing this are discussed in Chapter 8. What a sense of humor!
Why should he let them have all the fun?
Chapter 7: Combinatorial Searching 1
7.1: Zeros and Ones 47
7.2: Generating All Possibilities 281
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Of the parts of the URL, which is it?
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And, I did not edit the link. Perhaps some admin removed the affiliate part. However, when I go to the page in my browser, it looks just like it does above. Perhaps I followed a link to Amazon earlier in my session and picked up someone's affiliate link.