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The TITLE of Volume 4 is Combinatorial Algorithms, and when I proposed it I was strongly inclined to add a subtitle: The Kind of Programming I Like Best. Mv editors have decided to tone down such exuberance, but the fact remains that programs with a combinatorial flavor have always been my favorites.
Drawn from actual excel conundrums posted on the author's website, www.mrexcel.com, this high-level resource is designed for people who want to stretch Excel to its limits. Tips for solving 100 incredibly difficult problems are covered in depth and include extracting the first letter of each word in a paragraph, validating...
The label on my shampoo bottle listed many compounds, and, due to my interest in chemistry, most of them were familiar or had obvious functions. However, one compound stood out as puzzling: sodium chloride.
This text features Leibniz's own accounts of his work and comprises critical and historical notes and essays. An informative Introduction leads to the "postscript" to Leibniz's 1703 letter to James Bernoulli, his "Historia et Origio Calculi Differentialis," and manuscripts of the period 1673-77. Essays by C. I....
Analyzing the Grammar of English offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function better in skills-building classes,...
This dictionary is based on word parts — those prefixes, suffixes, com¬ bining forms and roots which show up repeatedly to form words — and is meant to be used in conjunction with a standard dictionary and a thesaurus. It can help to retrieve words only dimly remembered, or it can lead to specific new words which otherwise...
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from
reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This
book is about the latter.
If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the...
The study of DNA in heredity and disease has led to a great many heady scientific discoveries and, ironically, to some humbling acknowledgments of ancient medical wisdom.
Scientists discovered nucleic acids, the general chemical building blocks of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and genes, in the 1890s.Within several...
The book provides well-reasoned advice to teach the ins and outs of expert witnessing that is specifically oriented toward accounting. …this is a highly recommended read. - in Readers Preference Reviews
From opposing the local CPA to tackling the Big Five - Everything you need to know about accounting in the courtroomWith...
Secret writing for the transmission of messages has been practiced for nearly 4,000 years. According to David Kahn, the great historian of cryptology, the first example of an intentionally altered message can be traced to a tomb in ancient Egypt dated about 1900 b.c. In the 40 centuries since that...
Cyberspace now touches all lives. For some it has become as essential as the telephone or the letter. For others it is still a fearful whisper of technological promise. Sometimes we look on bemused, uncertain why all those little addresses that begin ‘http://’ appear in advertisements, and sometimes we are shocked by the possibilities,...
