How long does it take to read The Art of Computer Programming?
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth takes about 11 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1968. 653 pages, about 179,575 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Art of Computer Programming is a multi-volume work by computer scientist Donald Knuth that presents programming algorithms together with their analysis. Knuth began it in 1962, picturing a single book of twelve chapters, but it grew into a planned seven-volume series, with the first volume appearing in 1968. The first five volumes are meant to cover the central core of programming for sequential machines, while the sixth and seventh treat important but more specialized subjects. Later parts of the fourth volume have appeared as installments, including material on satisfiability, backtracking and constraint satisfaction.
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Subjects: Computer programming, Computer algorithms, Electronic digital computers, Programming, Long Now Manual for Civilization
