It would have been more accurate to limit the sample to mathematicians and computer scientists, which I think was lukeprog’s (subconscious) reference class.
That I could see...the figures I can find say 400,000 copies sold. Assuming half of those are to mathematicians and computer scientists, that’s 200,000 sales to our reference class, which would be reasonable once we take into account people borrowing/downloading the book.
It would have been more accurate to limit the sample to mathematicians and computer scientists, which I think was lukeprog’s (subconscious) reference class.
That I could see...the figures I can find say 400,000 copies sold. Assuming half of those are to mathematicians and computer scientists, that’s 200,000 sales to our reference class, which would be reasonable once we take into account people borrowing/downloading the book.