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How long does it take to read The Algorithm Design Manual?

Steven S. Skiena

The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S. Skiena takes about 13 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 13 hours 43 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1998. 748 pages, about 205,700 words.

28 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 22 hours 51 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 13 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 8 hours 34 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

CD-ROM contains: Hypertext version of text -- Source code and URLs for all cited implementations -- Audio lectures on design and analysis of algorithms.

Subjects: Computer algorithms

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