/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9148660
>>9148660
Nothing is stopping you from starting a /c/ thread with that topic.

Let's make a /sci/ CS literature list.

Suggestions:
>Sipser Theory of Computation
>Knuth Concrete Math
>CLRS
>Norvig AI
>SICP
>K&R
>Tanenbaum Modern OSes

/g/entooman here, I recently became interested in quantifying password strength while writing a quick password generator. Problem is, I'm kind of rusty on some of the mathematical aspects related to what I'm trying to do. So I have a few simple questions to help straighten out some of my doubts.

Would a 2-character password consisting of only lower case letters in the English alphabet have 26^2 possible combinations?

Let's say I add a number to the end of the password, since there are only 10 possible choices, would the number of possible combinations be 26^2 + 10 or 26^2 * 10?

Am I going full retard and have no idea what I am even talking about?

>>2309771
HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?

>>1920449
sure is ad homien in here

>>1227903
As have I

Can someone recommend a good intro Discrete Math text with a focus on CS to a noob?