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09-22-2022, 12:20 AM
(09-22-2022, 12:12 AM)Jack Wrote: Kernelpanic, here's an interesting book NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING by Ward Cheney and David Kincaid

Okay and? What does it bring for €144.25?
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09-22-2022, 12:23 AM
(09-22-2022, 12:12 AM)Jack Wrote: Kernelpanic, here's an interesting book NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING by Ward Cheney and David Kincaid

http://134.208.26.59/NM/%E9%9B%BB%E5%AD%.../BOOK6.pdf
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09-22-2022, 12:27 AM (This post was last modified: 09-22-2022, 12:29 AM by Kernelpanic.)
(09-22-2022, 12:15 AM)Pete Wrote: German math? No thanks. It's like the old saying goes... There are only two types of German cars. The ones in the shop, and the ones going to the shop.

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Reminds me now of "Communist Mathematics" around 1934 in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Yes, really! You can read about it in the first book of Solschenizyn.  Tongue
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09-22-2022, 12:35 AM (This post was last modified: 09-22-2022, 12:35 AM by Pete.)
Is that the book that has the question: If Boris has 2 apples, and Natasha has 2 apples then Putin has 4 apples?

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09-22-2022, 12:37 AM
(09-22-2022, 12:23 AM)Pete Wrote:
(09-22-2022, 12:12 AM)Jack Wrote: Kernelpanic, here's an interesting book NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING by Ward Cheney and David Kincaid

http://134.208.26.59/NM/%E9%9B%BB%E5%AD%.../BOOK6.pdf

Thanks! Yes, the first impression is good. But there is no book that can cover all areas, no matter what it is.
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09-22-2022, 12:38 AM
(09-22-2022, 12:35 AM)Pete Wrote: Is that the book that has the question: If Boris has 2 apples, and Natasha has 2 apples then Putin has 4 apples?

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