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How should I approach the comparison of two BMP images?

I am currently writing a Python program that retrieves the pixels from two BMP files and finds the percent difference between them (without using the Pillow library for the purpose of learning). I can ...
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How does a dynamic array access work?

In C if i declare int x[4] Which tells me its an integer array with each array element size fixed of size 4. So after initialization when I access x[3] : address of array +element size which is 2 * ...
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How to ask a user how many inputs they want

I want to know if it possible to use arrays for a more viable alternative of getting a non-predetermined number of inputs as an array and with an indefinite number of inputs. (python) original code --...
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Is it considered a bad practice to oversize an array so that negative indices behave well?

I have been practicing implementing some classic dynamic programming algorithms and was wondering if my implementation of the longest common subsequence search has a significant code smell. In python,...
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How to combine N non-comparable arrays up to an output limit in a fair way?

Given N non-comparable arrays of different sizes, what is the best method to combine them into one output array? Since the input arrays are non-comparable, a metric is needed to represent how ...
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How do I move away from the “for-loop” school of thought?

This is a rather conceptual question, but I was hoping I could get some good advice on this. A lot of the programming I do is with (NumPy) arrays; I often have to match items in two or more arrays ...
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How to remove the boundary effects arising due to zero padding in scipy/numpy fft?

I have made a python code to smoothen a given signal using the Weierstrass transform, which is basically the convolution of a normalised gaussian with a signal. The code is as follows: #Importing ...
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