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2 total messages Started by Han de Bruijn Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:38
Re: Points in Polygons
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Author: Han de Bruijn
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:38
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In article <1992Sep27.022750.8620@leland.Stanford.EDU> Laurence James Edwards:
> Wow! I had forgotten what a godly book Preparata&Shamos is.

Bad taste.
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Re: Points in Polygons
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Author: Laurence James Edwards
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:13
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In article <1992Sep28.083843.23616@dutrun2.tudelft.nl>, rcpshdb@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (Han de Bruijn) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep27.022750.8620@leland.Stanford.EDU> Laurence James Edwards:
|> > Wow! I had forgotten what a godly book Preparata&Shamos is.
|> 
|> Bad taste.

Hmm, well I guess there's no accounting for taste...

While I wouldn't recommend it for recreational reading, Preparata&Shamos does
present a comprehensive and coherent account of computational geometry, and 
I think it is the first book devoted to the subject.

Larry Edwards
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