When the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a tremendous resurgence of interest in the Indian way of life has occurred, resurgence due in part, at least, to the Laubins' life-long efforts at preservation and interpretation of Indian culture.As The Indian Tipi makes obvious, the American Indian is both a practical person and a natural artist. Indian inventions are commonly both serviceable and beautiful. Other tents are hard to pitch, hot in summer, cold in winter, poorly lighted, unventilated, easily blown down, and ugly to boot. The conical tipi of the Plains Indian has none of these faults. It can be pitched by one person. It is roomy, well ventilated at all times, cool in summer, well lighted, proof against high winds and heavy downpours, and, with its cheerful fire inside, snug in the severest winter weather. Moreover, its tilted cone, trim smoke flaps, and crown of poles, pres
In Hacker's Delight, Second Edition, Hank Warren once again compiles an irresistible collection of programming hacks: timesaving techniques, algorithms, and tricks that help programmers build more elegant and efficient software, while also gaining deeper insights into their craft. Warren's hacks are eminently practical, but they're also intrinsically interesting, and sometimes unexpected, much like the solution to a great puzzle. They are, in a word, a delight to any programmer who is excited by the opportunity to improve.
Extensive additions in this edition include
A new chapter on cyclic redundancy checking (CRC), including routines for the commonly used CRC-32 code
A new chapter on error correcting codes (ECC), including routines for the Hamming code
More coverage of integer division by constants, including methods using only shifts and adds
Computing remainders without computing a quotient
More coverage of population count and counting leading zeros
Array population count
New algorithms for compress and expand
An LRU algorithm
Floating-point to/from integer conversions
Approximate floating-point reciprocal square root routine
A gallery of graphs of discrete functions
Now with exercises and answers
Product details
- Hardback | 512 pages
- 195 x 260 x 30mm | 1,339g
- 16 Oct 2012
- Pearson Education (US)
- Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
- New Jersey, United States
- English
- 2nd edition
- 0321842685
- 9780321842688
- 16,506
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