[Blackpool] Book recommendation: Cryptonomicon

[Donald Simpson]

I have found that this site has very good prices for used books, and they
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http://www.betterworldbooks.co.uk/9780060512804-id-9780060512804.aspx

Donald.

On 22 May 2015 at 14:00, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I meant to recommend this book:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/344245512X
>
> I've been meaning to read it for a while...  A fair amount of maths and
> even perl script in the book but it's funny and the tech stuff is not too
> heavy and well explained.  It will start with things like the maths behind
> calculating how often the chain on Alan Turings bike will fall off and then
> takes you into relating that to prime numbers, cryptography and the Enigma
> cypher.
> Great read.
>
> A
>
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