Recursion in computer science is a method of problem solving where the solution to a problem depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem.
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Brainfuck interpreter in Haskell
Okay, so I just started learning Haskell around a week ago and this is my first real program that I worked on all of yesterday with a lot of help from IRC. I know that using indicies and arrays is not ...
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Simplifying this factorial function
def factorial(t,n):
if n == 1 : return t
else: x = (t * (n-1))
n = n-1
return factorial(x,n)
print factorial(6,6)
I can't seem to figure out ...
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Validating a Binary Search Tree
This is an implementation of a function to check the property of a Binary Search Tree, that is:
the key in any node is larger than the keys in all nodes in that
node's left subtree and smaller ...
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GOF Composite Design Pattern Implementation Using Modern C++
After reading about the composite pattern from the GOF design pattern book, I thought to re-implement the code mentioned in the motivation section using the modern C++ concept/idioms. Below is the ...
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Get the environment variable's value
I've written a function which can get the environment variable's value. The input parameter would one of the following:
${machine}/bin
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Lopsided Trees and Recursion
The original problem is:
Define the height of a binary tree to be the number of nodes in the
longest path from the root to a leaf. The empty tree is considered to
have height 0. A node is ...
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Miller-Rabin Recursive Primality Test
I'm working on a primality test and have written a recursive function that returns the value of the function
\$b^{q-1} \bmod q\$
where \$3<= q <= 32000\$
Is there any way to speed up ...
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Nsum problem: find all n elements in an array whose sum equals a given value
I am implementing the algorithm for the following problem with Python. I am pretty new to Python, so I want to listen to any advice that improve my coding style in a "pythonic" way, even about naming ...
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Simple factorial program using recursion
Two concepts I realized I needed to understand and use more are recursion and Exceptions. Thus, I combined both in the following program. Although it began with a focus on using recursion it became ...
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Recursive linear search - branch style and layout
Is my layout of the if/else statement reasonable?
It feels clumsy to me to spread the termination condition over the first three lines of the function. Can I ...
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Time complexity of 0/1 Knapsack challenge
The code gives correct output. How do I calculate time complexity for code like this?
The program finds all the combinations of items and sees if the combination gives the max profit. If the last ...
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Decoding an element list
I have a function which I am calling an infinite number of times (or until a condition is met). The problem with this recursive function is that on a higher level, it is called by a worker thread ...
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Implement a string in reverse using pointers and recursion
I'm trying to reverse a string using pointers and recursion, and I send it a char array. Is this the best way, or is there a better one?
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Merge Sort Implementation in Java (that seems slow…)
I decided to write my own implementation of merge sort. Here is the code:
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Cutting stock recursion
This problem is identical to the one here:
Suppose that you have been assigned the job of buying the plumbing
pipes for a construction project. Your foreman gives you a list of the
varying ...
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Using brute force to find an energy optimal path for a given amount of time
The code below implements a brute force method to find an energy optimal path for a given amount of time t_aim using recursion (the recursion function is ...
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Process a line in chunks via Regular Expressions with Ruby
I'm writing a Ruby script to reverse engineering message log files. They come from an external system with the following characteristics:
Each line of the log file has at least one message.
Each ...
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Efficiently creating a menu consisting of multi-level structure
I was asked to modify existing code to allow multi-level page structure. Each page can have one parent, and one page can have multiple children.
I will present following code. My question is is there ...
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Print all possible combinations of size r, from an array of size n
This is my working solution for the following problem: given an array of integers of size n, print all possible combinations of size r.
Before I proceed to the solution, I have the following ...
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Recursive, nested list traversal
Given a nested list of strings (which may contain other nested lists), print the contents of the list and the corresponding depth.
Here is my solution:
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Queens placement
The code below is intended to be a learning material for high school intermediate programming class, as an introduction to recursion and backtracking. I was thinking of rook placement and found it too ...
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Recursive function that generates the permutations of a string
I am looking for a review of my recursive function that generates the permutations of a string. Are there better ways to do this?
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Comparison of Fibonacci (Multinacci) Functions in Python3
After coming up with a formula on this Stack Overflow question, defeating recursion limits and finding a few new ways of calculating these numbers (as per this Stack Overflow question), I decided that ...
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Refactoring while-do array comparison function into tail recursion with F#
As part 2 of my other question concerning this long running project I've been inquiring about on CR, I reimplemented my generic function for determining if an array of arrays is a sub-array or ...
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Refactoring while-do into tail recursion with F#
I have a while-do loop nested inside a while-do loop in my program, due to it needing to iterate in two dimensions through an array of arrays, and originally my loop looked like this:
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Alternate method of iterating than os.walk
Recently, I became tired of how slowly os.walk seems to run (really, it should be called os.crawl), and made something recursive ...
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Stock Pipe Cutting using Recursion
This problem is from the Stanford Open Course CS106B Programming Abstractions Assignment #3
Problem number 6 here.
"You are charged with buying the plumbing pipes for a construction project. Your ...
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Recursive Django filter to output a list from user hierarchy
I need to create an HTML unordered list (to display with jstree) to display the hierarchy of users, along with a list underneath the user's "subusers" of their comments. Each user could have many ...
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Slow calculation of trigonometric sine function
Background
Creating a client-side pie chart in XSLT 1.0, without extensions or external dependencies (i.e., cannot use FXSLT, EXSLT, JavaScript, etc.).
Problem
The code is slow; at least fifteen ...
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Erlang pattern matching excersise
I recently started my first project with Erlang. I've been skimming documentation and various books to get the information I need, and it's going well, but now that I have something that works I want ...
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Algorithm to calculate semi perfect integers, lack of efficiency
I'm working on an algorithm to calculate weird numbers, and to do so there are several properties that needs to be calculated, one of them being, if it is NOT a semi-perfect/pseudoperfect number.
My ...
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More efficient conversion of tab-formatted nested data structure to json
I have data that looks like the "Input" below and need to convert it into JSON. My solution works by parsing the text to find a level for each data point. Then I use a recursive structure to build a ...
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Algorithm to Iterate All Possible Strings in Clojure
I'm fairly new to Clojure and I struggled a bit coming up with a nice Clojure-y solution for implementing an algorithm for one of my applications. The real issue I'm trying to solve would require a ...
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Optimization of recursive jQuery images swap function
There's this website I'm working on that needs to swap images every few seconds, like a slideshow or image fade swap in a way, except that you need to target 5 IMG tag elements. I was able to make a ...
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Replacing an F# loop over a mutable variable by an immutable approach
Consider:
let mutable m' = m
while m' % i = 0L do
m' <- m' / i
I've refactored it into:
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Trampoline Interceptor
Aim
In C#, the following method will cause a StackOverFlowException if called with parameter 0:
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Infix to postfix conversion
I have written a C++ program to convert an infix expression to postfix expression using recursion. I would like to know if it can be improved if possible. Can we improve it by not using a stack? I am ...
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Seeking improved Objective-C permutation algorithm
This algorithm seeks to find all of the possible permutations of a word:
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Generating all keypad possibilities
I ran into this question on Stack Overflow. It looked like a really cool thing to try myself, being that I haven't done any recursion for ages (read at least 2 years).
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Optimizing Recursive Quadtree
I have a written a quadtree program in Python 2.7 to cross-correlate large catalogs with each other i.e. find the common objects in the catalogs based on their position. The problem is that it's still ...
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Finding if there is a subset that sums to a target value from an array of integers
I came across this problem.
Problem Statement:
Given an array of ints, is it possible to choose a group of some of
the ...
