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CS170: EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS & INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS, FALL 2006 The textbook for this course is "Algorithms" by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou & Vazirani. It will not be available at bookstores until about September 15. In the meantime, you can access the material online at Algorithms The grades for the course have been uploaded on bearfacts. The scores for the final are available here. Have a good break!

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Global Text Project We maintain the chapters for all Global Text Project books in open document format with extensive use of style sheets so that we can quickly convert them into different media or formats. Global Text Project books have been internationalized and converted to a standard format using OpenOffice. You can access individual chapters in open document format and modify them to meet your needs. We control changes to the master version of each chapter, so please report corrections and suggestion changes to the Associate Editor. There are two ways to find books, by directory or by search.

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