Algorithms Definition and 140 Threads

What books of solved problems (free in pdf) would you recommend for data structures and algorithms in C (linked lists, trees, sorting and searching algorithms, graphs, recursion, files)? Note: I am not looking for theoretical books, but books of solved problems. Thanks for replies.

Could you recommend me a book or two treating the algorithms and their mathematical foundation, designs, and analysis? My main programming languages are C++ and Python.

Perhaps the title says it all, but I should expand it more, I guess. So I am trying to explore more about constrained optimization. I noticed that there are very little to no formal (with examples) discussions on algorithms on nonlinear constrained optimization in the internet. They would...

Is it a good idea to do "coding drills" in C or C++98 just to make things harder? I've been doing that and it seems to help because there's so much more I need to think about in order to cover all the corner cases and make things compact. It's like practicing baseball with a weighted bat so...

I stumbled across a paper which stated that the relation between statistical mechanics and field theory is exploited to recast lattice QCD in terms of a "microcanonical ensemble" of sorts. I was curious to know if this was still a commonly used technique. The paper in question...

I have big plans for summer (note: I still plan on exercising, eating healthy, and showering regularly. Of course, my goal is 12-16 hours per day, 5-6 days a week), 10 math books to finish in 4 months of moderate to very hard difficulty (for me, not in general. I plan on learning all the...

Hello! (Wave) The following part of code implements the Horner's method for the valuation of a polynomial. $$q(x)=\sum_{i=0}^m a_i x^i=a_0+x(a_1+x(a_2+ \dots + x(a_{m-1}+xa_m) \dots ))$$ where the coefficients $a_0, a_1, \dots , a_m$ and a value of $x$ are given: 1.k<-0 2.j<-m 3.while...

Hello I'm teaching assistant at one university in Bosnia and Herzegovina (department for computer science) and I have recently been chosen to be an assistant at "Introduction to computer algorithms" subject. First few classes are based on mathematical background (induction, recursion, algorithm...

Hi all, I understand Genetic algorithms aside form why crossover helps things, it has no guarantee of getting the best characteristics of each chromosome. Ie say you had a genetic algorithm to calculate square roots, fitness = 1(Abs(NumToFindRoot of-(Guess*Guess)) and your guess was a binary...

Hello, I still haven't introduced my self, I'm new here. Since I don't like typing about things on the wrong place I will jump directly into my problem. I have learned to program at home, I'm familiar with the syntax of C/C++/C#/Java/Python/PHP/HTML & CSS/JavaScript/bash/batch and a little bit...

Hello! (Wave) Could you explain me the function of the following two algorithms? (Thinking) int countSort(int arr[], int n, int exp) { int output[n]; int i, count[n] ; for (int i=0; i < n; i++) count[i] = 0; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) count[ (arr[i]/exp)%n ]++...

Hello! (Smirk) Suppose that we have an algorithm of the form: Algorithm(NODE *P){ static int s=0; Algorithm(P->RC); ...... Algorithm(P->LC); ...... s++; } where P is the root of a binary tree, for example this one: When we call the function Algorithm(a), s will get the value...

Everytime I sit down at the computer, I pull out my earbuds to plug into the harddrive so I can listen to music while I post things on PF.com...among other things :) The problem is, everytime I pull my earbuds out of my pocket, it's all tangled in a mess. My method is, I start with the...

Greetings, I am looking for a Introduction on quantum computers and algorithms such as shores algorithm(spelling may be wrong).The level of mathematics and QM is irelavent, thus integral calculation and nth degree differentail equation of any form are no problem. Any recommendations are apreciated.

I am in high school and I don't know much math. By AI I mean Artificial Intelligence. And by AI algorithms, I mean like algorithms that can allow a program to distinguish object from object in a picture, what key word to use based on data from the past, "learns" you and other objects, and etc.

I find this problem pretty interesting and I'd like to know more about it and what topic of math it comes from. Amy and Chris stand opposite from each other at a table. Amy has a bag filled with certain shapes and these shapes are squares, circles and triangles. On the table there are 5...

Hi I want to estimate divergence of water vapor flux in atmosphere with NCEP/NCAR data I have the equations for that and i want the algorithms to implement it for NCEP/NCAR data. I have a paper with algorithms for ECMWF data. Can i take this? or it required new algorithms for my data

Greetings, I'm not sure if this site, or this area of the site, is the most likely place for me to get an answer to the question I am about to ask - so if anyone reads the question and doesn't know the answer, but knows of a more likely place for me to get an answer, please let me know, it...

Is there a standard algorithm or procedure that defines addition, multiplication of big O terms. I want definitions for problems like:- 1) (x-1) * O(x) 2) O((x-a)2) where a is some positive number etc. Since I want to implement this on a computer I would prefer some algorithm or paper...

*solved Homework Statement Lets say we have three algorithms, which include the following complexities 200n, 3n^2, 2^n-1. What would be a combined algorithm which is efficient? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Let me know if I'm on the right path here. 100n+3n^2 + 2^(n-1)...

I was looking through the list of sorting algorithms and there are so many of them! A simple problem where each element is less that or greater than the next term has so many solutions. How is that? My question is a rhetorical one but is there any limit to number of different techniques for...

Ok so I have a view ideas in mind for a project I was planning on doing involving genetic algorithms for my high school science fair class. I do have 3 mentors one a mathematician, a computer scientist who focuses on GAs, and a physicist who focuses on nano structures. here where I live, but...

Sort with Selection Sort algorithms the following list: 329, 363, 373, 334, 320 Give the intermediate lists at each step. I found the following information about Selection Sort. It states as follows: "The idea of selection sort is rather simple: the next largest (or smallest) element in the...

Sort with Insertion Sort Algorithms the following list: 329, 364, 373, 334, 320 Give the intermediate lists at each step. Can somebody please tell me if this is correct for Insertion Sort Algorithms? 329, 364, 373, 334, 320 1. 329, 364, 373, 334, 320 2. 364, 329, 373, 334, 320 3. 329...

Hi Guys, I have just started studying about this field. Can you give me some ideas about some best eigen value estimators? Both for SPD and non-SPD matrices. Thanks you. :-)

I have 2 possibilities, non of them worked: PD: I am sure that all the methods inside this method(s) are correct and I am sure that the program's GUI is refreshing effectively. public void metodo1() { for (int i=0; i<(perros.size()); i++){ for (int j=perros.size()-1...

Author: Thomas H. Cormen (Author), Charles E. Leiserson (Author), Ronald L. Rivest (Author), Clifford Stein (Author) Title: Introduction to Algorithms Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262033844/?tag=pfamazon01-20 Prerequisities: Contents:

Hi PF, I would like to implement different random number generators using AVR microcontroller (both PRNG and TRNG). So I would like to get suggestions about different sources of entropy for TRNG and algorithms for PRNG. Also wanted to test the randomness. And What is chaos theory...

there are many prime number algorithm the simplest being dividing all the number less than the prime number. then comes division of number less than or equal half of the number to prime number with the prime number finally the division by all the smaller prime number than the given number...

G = (V, E) a graph with V = {1, . . . , n}. We have the function f : V → V defined f (v) = min{u|u ∈ V, dG (v, u) ≤ 2}.Demostrate that vw ∈ E(G) with f (v) != f (w) then G has the P4 subgraph induced I don;t understand what to demostrate/to do. Any advice?

I'm an IT consultant and would like to ask for opinions. Do you think it is smarter to program algorithms or buy them from a library? Especially for complicated algorithms involving higher math functions. Some libraries charge a flat rate with unlimited downloads, they check their algorithms...

I am an engineering student. I am an average student. I don't think my methods of analysis and thinking are proper. I did take steps to improve my thinking abilities by becoming a left-handed person, solving sudoku and lateral thinking puzzles. I want to be a scientist in my life. But i...

I want to learn about robotics. Specifically, I want to implement and use SLAM algorithms. This is for hobbyist reasons, and to hopefully fuel a career change. I have a strong math background. My programming skills are not finely honed, but they aren't bad either. I went through the free...

Algorithms for infinite geometric series via long division?? I can't seem to find any algorithms for this on the internet easily. If I have a function of the form f(x)=\frac{a}{x+b} there should be an algorithm I can use to find some terms of the corresponding series \sum...

Currently I am doing models for my system. I have finished all of them designing three defferent controllers (Feedback Linearization Controller FLC , Sliding Mode Controller SMC and Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller FSMC).Now I am asked to optimize the FSMC using Gentic Algorithms but I have no idea...

Hey. I'm self studying my way through an algorithms book, and one of the questions at the end of a section is to prove that log(n!) \in \Theta (n log(n)). I wrote up what I believe is a valid proof. However, I don't have much experience writing formal proofs (and even less experience with...

Hello people, i am an undergraduate student on computer science (so i don't have a strong background in physics) and i am very interested in quantum mechanics and its affection the way we see information. I am studying for my "thesis" (well it's not exactly thesis when you talk about...

Hey everybody, I'm a little embarrassed to be asking this question as I feel it is extremely easy, but I will do so anyway. I'm self studying some algorithms, and the book that I'm using claims that a n^2 + b n + c \in \Omega(n^2) Of course, this is equivalent to saying that there...

The problem is as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let G be a connected graph. For a vertex x of G we denote by G−x the graph formed by removing x and all edges incident on x from G. G is...

Does anyone know of a good fitness function for evaluating an animal characteristic in genetic algorithms? I'm doing a project. The prompt is: Select some features of an actual organism and design a genetic algorithm together with a reasonable fitness landscape to evolve the organism in time...

Does anyone know of a good fitness function for evaluating an animal characteristic in genetic algorithms? I'm doing a project. The prompt is: Select some features of an actual organism and design a genetic algorithm together with a reasonable fitness landscape to evolve the organism in time...

Homework Statement I have a whole two courseworks on Genetic Algorithms, but we have been shown no examples. I am stumped! 1. A function f is set to depend on five variables x1, . . . , x5 where x1 can take 2 different values, x2 can take 8 different values and x3, x4, x5 each take 4 different...

I thought this story was charming, since it hints that there still might be a few things people can do that computers cannot (yet) do. I have no idea of the significance of these bubbles, but I'd be interested to hear others comments...

How can a novice simply generate a large number > 1010 in a few steps?

Hi, Does anyone know how to write an algorithm for collisions between many objects? An example like this would be the game Angry Birds which uses the Chipmunk physics engine? Chipmunk is based of "contact persistence algorithm" but I can't find out really what that is... any ideas on how to...

I'm trying to optimize a system of 10-20 differential equations in Matlab using a genetic algorithm. The problem is, when I call the ode function, whether it be ode45, ode23, ode15, etc., it sometimes gets stuck in an infinite loop. The genetic algorithm no longer progresses and I have to Ctrl+C...

Homework Statement please suggest a suitable shortest path finding algorithm of an autonomous device in the maze more popularly referred to as a micro-mouse. Homework Equations In the development stage we have understood that simply applying djikstras would not work. Therefore we need a...

hello folks... my frnds and I have a project in which we have to find the shortest path possible for a mouse to traverse to the middle of the maze(any random maze)...we have understood that simply applying djikstra`s would not work...also prevalent algorithms like floodfill have a level of...

Anyone familiar with a bubble sort? and if so how to implement it?

Understading sum/product algorthms Hello there, I'm having a little trouble understanding sum/product algorithms. I can do single sum/product algorithms, but when it comes to multiple/combined summations or products I just can't follow. Ex.: \sum_{i=0}^n (a_i x + c_i) Ok, this one was...