Number-Crunching : : Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction / / Paul J. Nahin.
How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or eve...
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