Aug 3, 2009 · Although I have no problem whatsoever understanding recursion, I can't seem to wrap my head around the recursive solution to the Tower of Hanoi problem. Here is the code …

Dec 1, 2011 · I would like to understand how RSA tokens (SecurID) work, what is the algorithm used there, is it the same algorithm as the regular RSA encryption/decryption ?

106views Is there a faster method to compute these distance-based sums over a nonuniform grid of cells? I'm attempting to implement an algorithm to compute an array of values. …

What is the difference between the "Floyd-Warshall algorithm" and "Dijkstra's Algorithm", and which is the best for finding the shortest path in a graph? I need to calculate the shortest path …

76 After a lot of Googling, I've found that most sources say that the Dijkstra algorithm is "more efficient" than the Bellman-Ford algorithm. But under what circumstances is the Bellman-Ford …

Jan 4, 2021 · 5 The time complexity of the binary search algorithm belongs to the O (log n) class. This is called big O notation. The way you should interpret this is that the asymptotic growth of …

Most people with a degree in CS will certainly know what Big O stands for. It helps us to measure how well an algorithm scales. But I'm curious, how do you calculate or approximate the …

Jan 28, 2009 · Similarly, an algorithm that only has to do one step which takes a constant amount of time is also considered to be an O (1) algorithm, but also to be an O (n) and an O (n^2) …

The wikipedia entry on Levenshtein distance has useful suggestions for optimizing the computation -- the most applicable one in your case is that if you can put a bound k on the …

Feb 22, 2010 · A common algorithm with O (log n) time complexity is Binary Search whose recursive relation is T (n/2) + O (1) i.e. at every subsequent level of the tree you divide …