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The following table lists all changes made between the first hardcover printing (2001) and the first paperback printing (2003), except for a few that are too trivial to mention:
- page vii, line 21
- change 'the University of Indiana' to 'Indiana University'
- page 21, line 6
- change 'this was a' to 'this was an'
- page 26, line 15
- change 'this program' to 'this problem'
- page 48, line 24
- change 'than random' to 'then random'
- page 51, line 12 from the bottom
- change 'http:ww1c' to 'www1c'
- page 55, lines 8 and 9
- (there is too much space between these lines)
- page 55, line 26
- change 'Professeur' to 'Professor'
- page 57, line 17
- delete the space before the closing quotes
- page 70, line 24
- change 'this wife' to 'his wife'
- page 75, line 15
- change 'per cent' to 'percent'
- page 92, line 1
- change 'about a half' to 'about half of'
- page 102, the line above Slide 10
- change 'would used' to 'would have used'
- page 103, line 2 above Slide 12
- change 'goodwill' to 'good will'
- page 115, line 6 from the bottom
- change 'Elijah' to 'Elisha'
- page 124, bottom line
- change 'understand' to 'understood'
- page 134, lines 20--22
- change 'See also the Internet page ...html.' to 'See also his CDrom, The world of alphabets (Rochester, New York: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2001), ISBN 0-9713459-0-2.'
- page 155, line 13
- change 'make' to 'made'
- page 155, line 8 from the bottom
- change 'hobby, just' to 'hobby, just as'
- page 165, line 10
- change 'Manuelo' to 'Manuela' [definitely not a Freudian slip]
- page 170, line 10
- change 'the number' to 'the expected number'
- page 185, line 15 from the bottom
- delete the spurious '>'
- page 186, line 4 from the bottom
- change 'today' to 'to-day'
- page 201, line 14 from the bottom
- change 'www.cs.jhu.edu/~callahan/lifepage.html' to 'www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/'
- page 202, lines 11 and 12
- change 'London: MacMillan' to 'New York: Walker'
- page 204, lines 18 and 19 from the bottom
- change 'The "E" in "Emacs" ... readily add' to 'Richard Stallman's editing program, Emacs, makes it easy for users to add'
- pages 208, 209, 210, here and there
- change 'AB' to 'A.B.', 'SM' to 'S.M.', 'PhD' to 'Ph.D.', etc.
- page 220, line 7; also page 221, line 2
- change 'Francis' to 'Frances'
- page 228, line 12
- change 'mere a' to 'mere'
- page 245, left column, top line
- change 'Dieterich' to 'Dieterich Ambrosini'
Here also are miscellaneous amendments to the index:
Genesis 2:17204.
Genesis 3:16
Leviticus 3:16
Psalm 3:1--2
Zechariah 4:6
Matthew 3:16
John 3:16
John 17:3
Acts 26:24
1 Corinthians 6:15
1 Corinthians 6:19
1 Thessalonians 4:3
2 Timothy 3:16
Dieterich Ambrosini, Claude, 122.
Emacs, 190, 204, 208.
errors, of judgment, 110--111, 120.
limitations of human understanding, 147.
Moore, Gordon Earle, law, 16, 23.
software, 60, 98--99, 130, 146, 204, 221, 232.
Sony AIBO robots, 209, 216.
Stallman, Richard Matthew, 204, 236.
Stata, Ray and Maria, Center, 140, 163.
theology, computers and, vi, 19.
whiteout, 118, 122.
Also, the thumbnail images that had been captured from videotape turned out to be too dark after they went through the press in the original hardcover printing (although they had looked fine on laserprinted proofs). The paperback version treats them better.
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