10 Sep
2003
10 Sep
'03
11:41 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 TRASIOL(a)cs.com wrote:
Sellam: I'll bet my last dollar that you've
got termites - or maybe they've
got you! They love corrugated board and paper. I've had them bore holes right
through books, from cover to cover. I suggest you get help!! Art Hill
Q: If such a critter were to start at page one of volume 1 of Knuth
("Numerical Algorithms"?) and eat straight through to the last page of
volume 3 ("Sorting and Searching"), how far would he go? To simplify the
arithmetic, we'll adjust the dimensions and say that each cover is 1/8
inch thick, and the paper of each volume is 1 inch thick.