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Title: Very Upset
Review: I'm taking a class in discrete mathematics, and I've never bought such a useless textbook. Examples are somewhat irrelevant to the text material, text is misleading and worded awkwardly, hints and answers to the problems are few and far between, and the ones provided give little more than a one-number answer. The introduction to this book states that at the time, this was one of the only books available; it definitely shows, because the author did a horrendous job of providing adequate guidance and instruction. For instance, the author will include an amazingly difficult problem, but will neither go through an example problem in the text or provide an answer, leaving the student to scratch his/her head. This is NOT the way to write a textbook. Unfortunately, I had to pay dearly for this atrocious book; my professor made it required reading.
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