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Hacker's Delight is a software algorithm book by Henry S. Warren, Jr. and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. The first edition was released in 2002,[1] and the second in 2013.[2] It discusses a variety of programming algorithms for common tasks involving integer types, often with the aim of performing the minimum number of operations or replacing slow operations by faster ones (e.g., converting a divide by a constant into a multiply by another constant that gives the same result).[3]

The second edition has new chapters on cyclic redundancy code and other error correcting codes. It also has a new appendix containing graphs of discrete functions.

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  1. ^ Warren Jr., Henry S. (2002). Hacker's Delight (1 ed.). Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-91465-8.
  2. ^ Warren Jr., Henry S. (2013). Hacker's Delight (2 ed.). Addison Wesley - Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 978-0-321-84268-8.
  3. ^ Maxfield, Max (2012-04-05). "Book Review: Engineer's Bookshelf - Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr". EE Times. Archived from the original on 2017-04-02. Retrieved 2017-04-02.

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