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- cooloverwhelming
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- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Hamming, Bret Victor
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press, Stripe Matter Inc
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781732265172
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First sentence
“The purpose of this course is to prepare you for your technical future.”
About Richard Hamming · 1915–1998
American mathematician who invented the Hamming code, the Hamming window, the Hamming distance, etc, etc.
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