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... preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope ofthe discussion The Ele-ments of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field Rather it proposes to give in brief space the ... Jr A textbook required for the course was a slim volume called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 1919 The book was known on the campus in those days as ... fuel." They learn that they are being chatterboxes when they say "the question as to whether" and that they should just say "whether"-a saving of four words out of a possible five The

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... at the end, and it has no other connections with the rest of the program The logical IF reduces the apparent complexity of the program Occasionally the third branch of an arithmetic IF can serve ... Trang 3320 THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE CHAPTER 2 We also deleted the inaccessible STOP statement and the explicit indexing in the READ statements, indented the code, and numbered the statements ... assistance they gave to this project were the principal architects of UNIX; besides reading drafts, they helped us get the most out of the system while we were working on this book J F Ossanna wrote the

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... important phase, too often neglected in the past We have revised The Elements of Programming Style extensively to reflect these changes The first edition avoided any direct mention of the term "structured ... Manual of Style Copyright© McGraw-Hill, Inc 1970 By permission Trang 6CONTENTS vii Trang 8PREFACE to the Second Edition The practice of computer programming has changed since The Elements of Pro-gramming ... Trang 1THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE SECOND EDITION Kernighan and Plauger Trang 2THE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING STYLE Second Edition Brian W Kernighan

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... objects They are... set of composition 1 Proportion and scale - Size and shapes of objects - Reference point of the objects - Use these points to analise how big you should draw the other ... weight,... and there interaction with other enviroments These masses evoke thought , feelings and tensions - seeking out the purest form of the subject Non Objective Masses They refer to ... called Analogus are adjacent in the circle. They have at least one common colour. e.g. Yellow / Orange / Red ( Common colour is Yellow ) - The use of these two types of colours can create a purposeful

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... ) of the other, the base of that whichhas the greater angle is greater than the base of the other Dem.—Of the two sides AB, AC, let AB be the one which is not the greater, and with it make the ... 18The Solution of a problem is the method of construction which accomplishesthe required end.The Demonstration is the proof, in the case of a theorem, that the conclusionfollows from the hypothesis; ... of one equal to the angle CGB contained by the two sides of the other Therefore [iv.] these triangles have the angle F BC equal to theangle GCB, and these are the angles below the base Also the

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... 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright ... written two of the fi Game and Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, why should the authors revisit the subject of their already classic volumes? The sad fact is that in the cacophony of advice ... you on the right course for long-term success through all kinds of markets BURTON G MALKIEL is the Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics at Princeton University and the author of the bestselling

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... investing at the peak of the stock market each year Another investor starts later but is the world’s luckiest investor, buying at the absolute bottom of the market every year The first ... sentences Another reason for saving is quite positive: Most of us enjoy the extra comfort and the feeling of accomplishment that comes with both the process of saving and with the results—having ... more freedom of choice... your account would be worth $110 at the end of the first year the original $100 plus the $10 that you earned By leaving the $10 earned in the first year

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... based on the width of a house Consider another architectural example, the invention of the mansard roof in France Property taxes were often levied on the number of rooms in a house and, therefore, ... pleasure in the process of saving and the process of keeping trim They do not think in terms of deprivation; they think in terms of making good progress toward achieving their goal As they make ... cheaper and often faster For others, a taxi is worth the extra expense And some people — each with one of those two different kinds of preferences — are happily married to each other Their secret

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... the pockets of the croupiers of the fi nancial system, not into your retirement funds That ’ s why active managers do not beat the market — and why the market beats them DON ’ T SOME BEAT THE ... through their pension plans, 401(k) plans, or IRAs, professional managers, as a group, cannot beat the market because they are the market Because the players in the market must, on average, earn the ... Swensen, the brilliant portfolio manager for the Yale University endowment fund We are convinced there will be “ another Warren Buffett ” over the next 40 years There may even be sev-eral of them

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... mutual funds The fund pools the money from thousands of investors and buys a portfolio of hundreds of individual common stocks The mutual fund collects all the dividends, does all the accounting, ... broadly diversifi ed bond fund The U.S Treasury issues large amounts of bonds These issues are considered the safest of all and these bonds are the one type of security where diversifi cation ... higher at the end of the period While a total of exactly $ 5,000 is invested in both cases, the investor in the volatile market ends up with $ 6,048 — a nice return of $ 1,048 — even though the stock

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... before the end of the year to profi t from the supposed regularity But then investors will have to jump the gun even earlier, buying two days before Christmas and selling two days before the end of ... on the subject of minimizing costs, we need to warn you to beware of stockbrokers Brokers have one priority: to make a good income for them-selves That ’ s why they do what they do the way they ... well-above-average returns because of the low costs you pay Trang 9 V In his attempts to unlock the complex secrets of the universe, Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of the twentieth century,

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... percent of the total value of all stocks traded 115 c05.indd 115 11/3/09 10:16:21 AM The Elements of Investing in the United States It excludes the 30 percent made up of smaller ... leave most of her estate to her children or grandchildren. The appropriate allocation for those plan- ning bequests should be geared to the age of the recipi- ent, not the age of the donor, ... many of which are the most entrepreneurial and capable of the fastest future growth Any of the funds listed in the table on page 117 would be suitable, but be sure to notice the

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... The Elements of Style, Professor William Strunk Jr whittled down the art of powerful writing to a few basic rules Forty years later, E.B White initiated a revision, and thus The Elements ... served as a member of the President ’ s Council of Economic Advisers, Dean of the Yale School of Management, Chair of Princeton ’ s Economics Depart- ment, and as a director of major corporations. ... Elements of Style became... Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel, two of the investment world’s greatest thinkers, have combined their talents to produce The Elements of Investing—a

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... men. The samples were then frozen and stored in a stainless steel tank. In the lefthand version of the first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the stain was in the center of the ... bring the flesh and the blood. The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the chances of success. 13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition. The paragraph is a convenient ... instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field. Rather it proposes to...

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