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PREFACE
Jellis
Huang
Siherman
FGbook
Knuth
questions. And of ourse if no solution is known to day but you do make progress
on any of them in the future, I hope you'll let me know.
I urgently need your help also with resp et to some exerises that I made
up as I was preparing this material. I ertainly don't like to reeive redit for
things that have already b een published by others, and most of these results are
quite natural \fruits" that were just waiting to b e \pluked." Therefore please
tell me if you know who deserves to be redited, with respet to the ideas found
in exerises 5, 6, 10, 15, 20, 21, 31, 40, 58, 60, 61, 75, 85, 158, 163, 177, 198(d),
206, 207, 208, 210, 218, 222, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 247, 248, 249, 252, 253, 255,
258, 261, 262,
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. Furthermore I've redited exerises
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to unpublished work
of
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. Have any of those results ever app eared in print, to your knowledge?
Speial thanks are due to George Jellis for answering dozens of historial queries,
as well as to Wei-Hwa Huang, George Siherman, and
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for their detailed
omments on my early attempts at exp osition. And I want to thank numerous
other orresp ondents who have ontributed ruial orretions.
I happily oer a \nder's fee" of $2.56 for eah error in this draft when it is rst
reported to me, whether that error b e typographial, tehnial, or historial.
The same reward holds for items that I forgot to put in the index. And valuable
suggestions for improvements to the text are worth 32/ eah. (Furthermore, if
you nd a b etter solution to an exerise, I'll atually do my best to give you
immortal glory, by publishing your name in the eventual b ook:
)
In the prefae to Volume 4B I plan to introdue the abbreviation
FGbook
for my bo ok
Seleted Papers on Fun and Games
(Stanford: CSLI Publiations,
2011), beause I will b e making frequent referene to it in onnetion with
rereational problems.
Cross referenes to yet-unwritten material sometimes app ear as `00'; this
impossible value is a plaeholder for the atual numbers to be supplied later.
Happy reading!
Stanford, California
D. E. K.
99 Umbruary 2016
