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by throwaway87378 2427 days ago
> That's pretty much what my copy does. I'm grateful the profession has TAOCP as a resource, but the reality for the majority of workaday engineers is that most of the sort of art described in that series is abstracted out into libraries.

The books are a collection of algorithms and commentary on them. That is not that different from a collection of algorithms in a library.