minor edits and proofreading #44
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| [^eop-advance-distance]: Alex: "I am not saying I was right, because when we were writing | ||
| Elements of Programming, Paul and I, we decided to abandon advance and distance, |
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I will add quotes around this title.
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| Meanwhile Knuth heard about it from his friend | ||
| [Ian Pratt][pratt] who told him about it. | ||
| [Vaughan Pratt][pratt] who told him about it. |
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I believe you are correct, but I am curious if you could just hear the audio better, or have another reason for knowing this. I seem to remember coming across both people, but I can't recall any details about what I thought.
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Yes it's an easy mistake since the names are so similar, but I remembered that Alex jokes in another video (I think it was in the Programming Conversations course) that when Knuth doesn't know who invented an algorithm, he always gives credit to Vaughn Pratt, so I was curious about who this guy was (I actually first though he said Von Pratt and that it was a made-up person :) ) and then realized he is must be same guy from the famous Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm...
What Alex refers to here is actually in the answer to exercise 5.5.3 in The Art of Computer Programming vol. 3 (see pages 390 and 701).
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Fantastic, I will give that exercise a read and add a footnote with this information.
| Hello Petter, I appreciate you doing this and will add you to the acknowledgements. Another contributor is reading this for the first time, and helping me improve the organization, but that process has only gone up to chapter 10. You may have noticed many more errors and confusion in the latter half.
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First of all thank you for writing these notes! I have also watched Alex's videos multiple times and wished it was available in a more accessible form, and finally here it is!
After reading it I decided to make a second pass and fix some minor spelling errors and such, and found a couple more mistakes on the way. I did a few small edits where appropriate, paying careful attention to Alex's formulations in the original videos, so I hope you'll find them appropriate.
There are some small whitespace fixes too that probably don't show up in the HTML version, but I included them anyway.