Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth

Errata to the First Printing

A very mysterious (and very distressing) bug in the distiller software used by the publisher to convert from PostScript to PDF, after I had furnished them with a letter-perfect PostScript file, caused portions of several words to be shifted right from their proper position, following certain accent characters. I was unable to find any pattern to these occasional errors, except a tendency to choke on a macron (̄) accent every so often. But several quite ordinary accents have also been infected, seemingly at random. So far this unwanted glitch has been discovered in the following places:

page 197, line 5 (Gāo has been printed as G¯ao)
page 207, lines -9 and -10 (should say Sampō / Jōhō Kōzō)
page 209, line -12 (should say Sampō / Ransū)
page 209, line -10 (should say Sampō)
page 212, line 15 (should say permutărilor)
page 213, line 20 (should say Láng)
page 217, line 15 (should say Sūgaku)
page 217, line 19 (should say Valéria de Magalhães Iorio)
page 218, line 6 (should say Sampō)
page 219, line 1 (should say problèmes)
page 334, left column, line 2 (should say Dürer)
page 361, right column, line 25 (should say Itō)
page 362, left column, line 1 (should say Rhŷs)
page 398, left column, line 1 (should say Siméon)
page 401, left column, line 14 (should say Ramón)
page 410, left column, line -7 (should say Schläfli)

Here is a list of all the other nits that were found in the first printing (2011) and corrected in the second; an asterisk (*) marks technical errors that are not merely typographical:

page 141, line 25 (01 January 2012)
change "French baroque" to "Art Nouveau"
page 179, line -6 (03 February 2012)
change "somebody to knows" to "somebody who knows"
page 192, line 1 (15 January 2012)
change "set" to "sequence"
page 199, line 13 (03 Feb 2012)
change "cause" to "causa"
page 212, line 5 (17 Nov 2011)
change "정럴" to "정렬"
page 212, line 20 (03 Feb 2012)
change "кортежй" to "кортежей"
page 216, line 21 (18 Feb 2012)
change "440" to "441"
page 218, bottom line (23 Feb 2012)
change "Industry), in preparation." to "Industry, 2011), xii+189 pages."
page 255, last line of entry Q94 (26 Feb 2012)
The sentence "New looks at Mona Lisa." belongs in entry Q93
page 294, line 12 from the bottom (03 Feb 2012)
change "кортежй" to "кортежей"
page 295, line 3 from the bottom (17 Nov 2011)
change "정럴" to "정렬"
page 328, new entry (12 Oct 2011)
de la Vega, see Fernandez de la Vega.
page 339, right column (12 Oct 2011)
change "Fernández de la Vega, Wenceslas" to "Fernandez de la Vega, Wenceslas “Lalo”"
page 351, right column, line -4 (12 Feb 2012)
change "hamilton" to "Hamilton"
page 375, left column (08 August 2012)
change "Luke, Richard C." to "Luke, Richard Carlen"
page 397, left column, Pippenger entry (28 Jul 2012)
change "501" to "472, 501"
page 401, new entry (04 Oct 2011)
Python language, FG 160.
page 433, new entry (12 Oct 2011)
Vega, see Fernandez de la Vega.
page 436, new entry (20 Sep 2011)
Whitfield, Arthur Raymond “Whit”, FG 399--400.

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