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Recursive Determinant
The following code I devised to compute a determinant:
module MatrixOps where
determinant :: (Num a, Fractional a) => [[a]] -> a
determinant [[x]] = x
determinant mat =
sum [s*x*(determinant ...
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functional javascript - recursively walking a tree to build up a new one; could this be better factored as a reduce?
/**
* recursively build a nested Backbone.Model or Backbone.Collection
* from a deep JSON structure.
*
* undefined for regex values
*/
exports.modelify = function modelify (data) {
if ...
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List-flattening function in erlang feels too wordy
I wrote a tail-recursive list-flattening function, but I'm not too happy with it.
a) Is tail-recursion necessary here, or will the function be optimized without it?
b) It's ugly how many clauses ...
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How to improve this functional python fast exponentiation routine?
I have the following python functions for exponentiation by squaring :
def rep_square(b,exp):
return reduce(lambda sq,i: sq + [sq[-1]*sq[-1]],xrange(len(radix(exp,2))),[b])
def ...
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How to rewrite recursion in a more ruby way
def get_all_friends(uid, client)
friends = client.friendships.friends(uid: uid)
total = friends.total_number
get_friends(total, 0, uid, client)
end
def get_friends(total, cursor, uid, client)
...
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simple stupid F# async telnet client
Did I write this code to correctly be tail call optimized? Am I forcing computations more than I need with !? Did I generally write this asynchronously correctly to allow sends and receives to occur ...
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Scala: tail-recursive factorial
Is there anything what could be improved on this code?
def factorial(n: Int, offset: Int = 1): Int = {
if(n == 0) offset else factorial(n - 1, (offset * n))
}
The idea is to have tail-recursive ...
