Use of first person in a book

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Oct 12 08:48:26 PDT 2009


Phil Deets wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:11:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks to all who answered! I wish there was such consensus in other 
>> matters as well :o).
>>
>> Allow me to put forth an excerpt from TDPL without any particular 
>> reason: http://erdani.com/tdpl/excerpt.pdf
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>>
> 
> Nice, but I noticed two mistakes on page 140.
> 
> * "n divides p_k" => "p_k divides n"
> * In the paragraph starting with "Why does the iteration", the statement 
> "If iter is greater than sqrt(n) then we can be sure iter can’t be a 
> divisor of n" is wrong since iter could equal n (try 6 or 2 as input). 
> The function still works since you return accum * n.

Fixed. Thanks!

Andrei



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