How Long to Read Surreal Numbers

How Long Does it Take to Read Surreal Numbers?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 3 minutes to read Surreal Numbers by Donald Ervin Knuth

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week off from work on The Art of Computer Programming to write an introduction to Conway's method. Never content with the ordinary, Knuth wrote this introduction as a work of fiction--a novelette. If not a steamy romance, the book nonetheless shows how a young couple turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness. The book's primary aim, Knuth explains in a postscript, is not so much to teach Conway's theory as to teach how one might...

How long is Surreal Numbers?

Surreal Numbers by Donald Ervin Knuth is 119 pages long, and a total of 30,821 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Surreal Numbers Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 48 minutes to read Surreal Numbers aloud.

What Reading Level is Surreal Numbers?

Surreal Numbers is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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