How long does it take to read Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, 1St Edition, Volume 1?
Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, 1St Edition, Volume 1 by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a text on games and how to play them intelligently. In this volume, the authors examine games played in clubs, giving case studies for coin and paper-and-pencil games, such as Dots-and-Boxes and Nimstring. Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: First edition divides the content into two volumes. Second edition is comprised of four volumes. This is the 1st edition, volume 1.
Subjects: Mathematical recreations, Jeux mathématiques, Recreatieve wiskunde, Game Theory, Science/Mathematics, Mathematics
