TAOCP: Finished with 1.2 Mathematical Preliminaries

The final sections of 1.2 grow increasingly more complicated. Section 1.2.9 (Generating Numbers) was particularly nasty, and I got hardly anything out of it. Well, we can use it to find more information of some infinite series. Section 1.2.10 (Analysis of an Algorithm) begins gently, introducing a simple algorithm and demonstrating a flow chart for it. The end of that section was perhaps a little too much, however. Contradictory to my initial plan to skim the sections that are marked for mathematically inclined, I decided to read section 1.2.11.1 (the big-oh notation) as it is not a new concept for CS students and it's a very important concept when discussing algorithms. Sections 1.2.11.2 (Euler's summation formula) and 1.2.11.3 (Some asymptotic calculations) were skipped altogether.

So this brings section 1.2 to an end. I'm at page 124 and to my surprise I only had to skip a few pages from 1.2 Next becomes the MIX section that I have waited for.