Mon, 12 Sep 2011, 00:30

A student writes:

> Dr. Patt,
>  
> I hope that this isn't deemed a petty technicality, but I may have 
> found a small error in the book. On page 41, in the top paragraph, 
> it reads, "The entire set of eight-bit ASCII codes is losted in 
> Figure E.3 of Appendix E," but on that page in the back of the book 
> is a chart for Powers of 2.
>  
> To be honest, I'm trying to walk the thin line between sounding 
> arrogant and "sucking up."  I simply wanted to point this out in case 
> you didn't already know or wanted to change it someday.
>  
> Respectfully,
> <<name withheld to protect the student who is trying to be helpful>>

Thank you for your email.

First of all, I very much appreciate any error that anyone catches in
the book, and do not consider it petty or you arrogant or sucking up.
Thank you.

Second, it occurs to me that you are not aware of the errata list on
the McGraw-Hill web site, accessible from my home page, or if you want
to go right to it, it is: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072467509/information_center_view0/errata_page.html

If you look at the errata page, you will note that we already found the error.

I am cc-ing the class on this, since everyone in the class should check the
errata page and make the corrections to their own copy of the textbook.

I hope you are enjoying EE306 so far.

Yale Patt