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I wonder what all is in there. Definitely not just the stack article, because that is nowhere near 144 pages.

It would actually be kind of cool if it followed the link graph for the article a couple articles deep, so you could get a customized book of concepts clustered around a main topic.

I think the book would definitely become a lot more interesting that way.

Chapter 1: Stacks

Chapter 2: Reverse Polish Notation

Chapter 3: Australia

Chapter 4: Penal transportation

Chapter 5: Slavery

Chapter 6: Prostitution

Chapter 7: Pornography

(and I wasn't even trying)

Stack (data structure)

Computer science

Internet

Pornography

Bam!

Regardless, the assumption that pornography would be in every book assumes that you don't cluster the data to topics with strong clique behavior and normalize the data to remove overly-linked (aka obvious) topics.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is exactly what this book is doing.

The full book title is: "Stack (data structure): Abstract Data Type, Data Structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin High-level Programming Language, Lisp".

Go to the Wikipedia Stack article, and just read the article's links in order: computer science, LIFO, abstract data type, data structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin, high level languages, array, linked-list, overrun, Lisp, etc. It looks like they are doing very little editing -- maybe an automated pruning algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29

That's an interesting idea. I saw that thing earlier today where someone built a Wikipedia Trends.

Anyone know of other interesting uses of Wikipedia?

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