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    Need Help [Discrete math / Algorithms]

    Quick Summary: I'm in a class were we analyze code / find big theta / Oh / etc (Algorithm Design and Analysis). It's based on discrete math, which I'm terrible at. After posting Tired of Discrete Math... I have come to the conclusion that I will be needing some help figuring out a way to pass...
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    How do I unfreeze my mouse cursor on a laptop without an external mouse?

    What were you doing before the mouse froze on you? Is it frozen in the middle of the screen after reboot? And try plugging in an external mouse to see if you can get back your mouse functionality.
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    Struggling with Discrete Math? Here's What to Do

    Good point; let me post the book I'm using: Foundations of Algorithms using Java Pseudocode, by Richard Neaplitan. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763721298/?tag=pfamazon01-20 If anybody can offer some advice for good books on the subject that would be great. I'm going to take a gander at An...
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    Struggling with Discrete Math? Here's What to Do

    Tutor = Money = Something I don't have. I do have the internet though; it got me through my first discrete math course so hopefully it will do the same this time around. I need to find some other books for this subject though; I have a copy of Schaum's Outlines, Discrete Math which does a fairly...
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    Struggling with Discrete Math? Here's What to Do

    Obviously if the student doesn't care about the material, no instructor / textbook will help them. I simply don't understand the instructor / textbook; that's where my frustration is. It's almost as if I entered a class that's too advance, causing my brain to go :zzz: .
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    Struggling with Discrete Math? Here's What to Do

    Rant Warning I am a computer science major and math is a major part of our curriculum. A year ago I took my first ever discrete math course, and it honestly fried my brain. Now I'm in a computer science course that uses discrete math to analyze algorithms, and my brain has simply shutdown...
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    Leasing a Hyundai Sonata - Value & Features

    My 95 Grand Prix just hit 119000 :-) It's going to get replaced with a hyundai tiburon, or Mazda 3 (maybe a low-end g6) after the winter season is over. I'm a poor college student, so those are really the only cheap yet good looking options. Though the biggest selling point of a hyundai, is the...
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    Einstein's Intelligence Quiz ?

    How are you guys solving this problem? I don't see a clear solution without using guess and check... You can't solve a riddle by guess and checking though - hell you already have a 1 in 5 chance of getting the correct answer.
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    The Riddle: Who Owns the Fish?

    Because it's tied so closely to the riddle, I don't think he would just pull that number out of his butt... Even as an educated guess, it doesn't seem right.
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    The Riddle: Who Owns the Fish?

    So I've run into Einstein's Riddle... The answer is "The German" - but we're not done. What about the fact that only 2% of the world population will be able to solve the riddle? Say if you only considering the population in the USA, I'm quite sure at least 20% of the population should be...
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    Can a Pseudograph's Degree Sequence Form an Even Sum?

    I'm stuck on Q1... I mean I see it as being false, is this the right assumtion? Because the sum doesn't matter, since you can have parallel edges, you can always have d_i degrees (it's always true).
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    Can a Pseudograph's Degree Sequence Form an Even Sum?

    Edit, no, because we need the sum to be even. But either way I see the light now, I think I can concat up something up.
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    Can a Pseudograph's Degree Sequence Form an Even Sum?

    Q1: So with the counter example of just 1 vertex, it does not have 1 edge. The only possibility is a loop, but that would be 2 degrees. Is this what we're looking for, for the counter example?
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    Can a Pseudograph's Degree Sequence Form an Even Sum?

    "A pseudograph is a graph that allows both parallel edges and loops." Oh if you can have loops then yes you can have d_n (even more) degrees... Then the sum doesn't matter (at least I don't see it mattering).
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    Can a Pseudograph's Degree Sequence Form an Even Sum?

    Q1: No clue... My book uses pseudograph, and my teacher calls them just graphs. Q2: Well it's saying that if you have an edge connected by two vertices, then then complement would be two verticies with no edges. So when we are told that G is not connected, then the inverse has to be connected.
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