General Programming

Soduko
I am surprised that I can find no newsgroup dealing with the soduko game/puzzle, and methods for solution and/or generation. Am I blind? -- "If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on "show options" at the top of the artic... 9 Mar 2006 13:58

Critical Performance Issue - Help!
Hi All, Can anyone throw any light on the following problem that is slowing down the most critical part of my code. I would appreciate any suggestions or precise references. The code is a number crunching simulation in floating point double (64 bit). It is run on a home pc with a pentium 4 @ 3.2 Ghz with... 25 Feb 2006 09:43

Data Structures Question
Consider the following possible data structures for a set of n distinct integers I. A min-heap II. An array of length n sorted in increasing order III. A balanced binary search tree For which of these data structures is the number os steps needed to find and remove the 7th largest elment 0(log n) in the wors... 22 Feb 2006 22:38

Software Square Root
http://www.icarusindie.com/DoItYourSelf/rtsr/ffi/ffi.sqrt.php You can find a paper on this subject in the Programming Library which can be reached from the front page of IcarusIndie.com. What the paper doesn't cover is the relavence of this function today. Quake 3 uses software to calculate the square root rat... 22 Feb 2006 16:55

Recursion
http://www.icarusindie.com/DoItYourSelf/rtsr/fyi/fyi.recursion.php Recursion is a tool in programming that is very useful for simplifying problems. The idea is that you solve for n+1 and then 1 thru n just work. A famous recursive problem in math is the Fibonacci Sequence. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 ... You can see that... 23 Feb 2006 14:52

Fastest sorting algorithm
Hi, Recently I print out several papers about sorting algorithms. The following 3 papers are worth of reading about recent advances in sorting algorithm. "Sorting In Linear Time?" by A. Andersson, T. Hagerup, S. Nilsson, and R. Raman (Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, 19... 17 Feb 2006 20:09

c language
hi can you answer this question plsss.... write a program a nd dispalys the fibonacci sequence numbers of n(as inputs). in fibonacci, the current third number is the sum of two previous numbers. sample output: Enter a no.: 9 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 ... 18 Feb 2006 15:21

c programming
i have a problem in fibonacci sequence i want code that hte output is " 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 etc.." i want code in while loop and for loop and nested loop plss. help me this would be my exam in midterm... ... 13 Feb 2006 11:48

How do I hash this?
I have 82,160 3 number combinations (non repeating 1- 80, like one set of 1,2,3 ; not like 1,2,2) that I'd like create hash keys for with out collision, if possible. I tried SuperFastHash and when I tried loading them to my database I got some primary key failures which would indicate matching keys. Yes they'll... 15 Feb 2006 13:25

So much for .net wages...
Top Ten Tech Jobs, Wages Released http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1920279,00.asp According to Yoh, the top ten jobs with the highest demand by employers in the fourth quarter of 2005, together with their average hourly wages, were: * Clinical Research Associate - $38.52 * Data Manager - $... 10 Feb 2006 19:25