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how to print for loop results in a upper triangular matrix in R

The script in R as follow. for (i in 1:(ncol(K)-1)) #ncol=7,K is dataset for (j in i:ncol(K)){ print(mi.empirical(rbind(K[, i],K[,j]))) } output is given as [1] 0 [1] 0.1412579 ...
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Finding a mapping which was applied to values

I have mapping A which maps some objects to one or more ordered pairs of integers (a, b). Each pair appears only once in the mapping. Some bijective mapping F was applied to the integers used in those ...
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distributed incremental algorithm [on hold]

I need an incremental algorithm in my project. But a process cannot meet my target because of the high concurrency. I known that Twitter has an algorithm that is distributed incremental, but I can't ...
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Bucket vs Radix sort

I read this comment from another post - and thought to open a separate question: Bucket sort is more efficient for 'Dense' arrays, while Radix Sort can handle sparse (well, not exactly sparse, but ...
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Is there any tool to detect encryption algorithm of raw/encrypted series?

I'm search Google for cryptanalysis and relevant crypt tools but nothing can analyze couple of raw and encrypted raw. How can I detect encryption algorithm from these raw/encrypted series? ...
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How to find the maximum sum of two non-neighbors in array [on hold]

How can I quickly find the maximum sum of two non-neighbors in array? For example if the array is {1,-6,50,4,100,90}, the result should be 150 because 190 would require a sum of neighbors in the ...
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Find a sorted subsequence of size 4 in an array in linear time

We are given an array of numbers and we want to find a subsequence of size 4 that is sorted in increasing order. for eg ARRAY : -4 2 8 3 1 5 sorted subsequence of size 4 : -4 2 3 5 ...
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Testing a vector without scanning it [on hold]

For a series of algorithms I'm implementing I need to simulate things like sets of coins being weighed or pooled blood samples. I'm currently implementing this as a binary vector. By a vector I mean ...
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Fill matrix with binary numbers, regular and gray coded

I have a matrix that holds 1:s or 0:s, creating binary numbers. Its width is n. For n = 2 and n = 3 it would look like: 00 000 01 001 10 010 11 011 100 101 110 111 and so on. ...
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How to get the target number with +3 or *5 operations without recursion?

This is an interview problem I came across yesterday, I can think of a recursive solution but I wanna know if there's a non-recursive solution. Given a number N, starting with number 1, you can only ...
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Storing Rectangles/Circles/Triangles in a KD-Tree

I was looking at Kd-tree and found some implementations of this algorithm. All of these were storing points (2d in major of cases). What I am trying to achieve is to store different shapes in it like ...
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How to print the calculated process of a game like 24point?

Here's the problem: Given 4 numbers, I need to give a calculated process which results 24. All the operations I can use are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. How to print the calculated ...
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A probability calculation relating to quick sort [on hold]

This is a question from 《introduction to algorithms》numbered 7.4-6. It is described as below: Consider modifying the PARTITION procedure by randomly picking three elements from array A and ...
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Algorithm to find target sum of elements of chronologically indexed array

I am trying to develop an algorithm to find the optimal subset that will match the given target sum with the most utility of the earliest element from an chronologically indexed array of elements. ...
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Algorithm for best combination possible given some interesting constraints

I am looking for a way to compute the best possible combinations of selections so that the scores add up to the highest possible amount given: There are just as many teams as there are rounds The ...

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