Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John Ma...
Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John Ma...
Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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N006.3/235
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English
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x, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
What are the great ideas that power your PC? -- Search engine indexing, finding needles in the world's biggest haystack -- PageRank, the technology that launched Google -- Public key cryptography, sending secrets on a postcard -- Error correcting codes, mistakes that fix themselves -- Pattern recogn...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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New Jersey
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c2012.
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Nine algorithms that changed the future : the ingenious ideas that drive today's computers / John MacCormick ; with a foreword by Chris Bishop.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2012.
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N006.3/235
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74Vvrda2DZrO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvrda2DZrO
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0691147140 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691147147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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006.3
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991011229419702626
