From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Feb 26 11:56:27 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1QGuQIe018477 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:56:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l1QGuCqE010966 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:56:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 12584 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 16:49:31 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 16:49:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 26909 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 16:49:31 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 16:49:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 10622 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 16:49:22 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 16:49:22 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3529077 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:49:22 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 1773 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 16:49:22 -0000 Received: from mailscan7.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.158) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 16:49:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 13489 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2007 16:49:21 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 26 Feb 2007 16:49:21 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1QGnKcR018218 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:49:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l1QGnKLF018217 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:49:20 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702261649.l1QGnKLF018217@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:49:20 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: KNUTH ON ALGORITHMS To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1335; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2655/Mon Feb 26 03:40:40 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 487 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: KNUTH ON ALGORITHMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've added a section from Donald Knuth's classic text _The Art of Computer Programming_ on the informal notion of what an algorithm is. You might find it interesting, especially his example of an algorithm for reading his book :-) Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/S07/whatisanalg.html#knuth73