I am not a believer, but pray that whichever $DEITY is watching over Donald Knuth allows him a healthy and long life to reach the achievement of finishing volume 7.

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mcv an hour ago | parent | next [-]

He's a Christian (he's also written about that), but considering the time volume 4 took (and is still taking), I have my doubts he's going to make it.

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kps 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think there's a proof that he can at best asymptotically approach volume 7.

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wolfi1 3 hours ago | parent [-]

but what distraction could it be now? There seems to be nothing to be done for TeX

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kps 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.

	▲	flir an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Three months, tops.

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Pet_Ant 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What he needs to do is start sketching the rest so that it can be finished after his death in his vision.

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myst 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There’s no second Don Knuth vOv

	▲	disgruntledphd2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Brandon Sanderson maybe?