Errata for Computer Science: An Overview, 10th edition

The following are errors in the 10th edition of Computer Science: An Overview that have been found so far.

If you find an error that is not reported here, I would appreciate hearing from you via email at glennb@mscs.mu.edu. I'll try not to get upset and shoot the messenger. :-)

Last update: November 17, 2010

• Page 50: In Question 4, the b part should read 2 3/4 (rather than 2) and the d part should read 5/16 (rather than 5 1/16).
• Page 61: On line 13, 2 1/4 should be 2 1/2. (The entire line should read "2 1/2 + 1/8 + 1/8".)
• Page 124: The caption to Figure 3.2 should be "Interactive processing" rather than "Interoctive processing."
• Page 154: In the third line from the bottom, "unabe" should be "unable."
• Page 204: In the 10th line from the bottom, "Take a pea from" should be "Take a pea pod from."
• Page 281: In line 13 of the sidebar, delete the words "either upper case."
• Page 290: Line 7 should begin "Let us pause..." rather than "Let use pause..."
• Page 362: In the 9th line from the bottom, the word "collaboration" should be "class."
• Page 366: Problem #20 is the same as #30! Looks like things got a bit scrambled (or perhaps it's a really good problem :-). Anyway, you don't have to solve the problem twice.
• Page 481: Line 14 should begin "higher refractive index" rather than "higher reflective index."
• Page 481: In Figure 10.9, the word "fractive" on the right side of the figure should be "refractive."
• Page 486: The issue is in Figure 10.12. It's not that the figure is wrong. It conveys the faceted features of the sphere as it should. The problem is that the figure is not factual. If the sphere had actually been rendered using flat shading, you would NOT see explicit lines along the seams where the surfaces come together. You would merely see the shading associated with one surface abruptly change to the shading associated with the other.
• Page 560: In Figure 12.3 the bottom three entries in the column labeled "Current cell content" are incorrect. They should be 0, 1, * rather than 1, *, blank. Perhaps it's best to state the entire column from top to bottom. It should be *, 0, 1, *, 0, 1, *, (Ignored), 0, 1, *.
• Page 627: In the answers for Section 6.4, the diagram is the answer for question 3, but the label "3." is missing.