There are two strings. We need to find if one string is a rotation of the other. If yes then how many places it was rotated. The solution is pretty straightforward. I will describe two ways in this post. Continue reading
Sometimes I post sourcecode accompanying my posts which are long and makes the length of the post unnecessarily long. The wordpress.com sourcecode shortcode has an option collapse which you can make “true” to collapse the sourcecode box when the page loads. If you post a long code, when the code box is expanded it will be inconvenient to scroll through the page and read. Also sometimes you might not want to collapse the codebox when the page loads. For this I have a solution. Add vertical bars to the codebox using the div tags.
In this way the length of the code portion in the page remains fixed and to read the code one requires just to scroll in the code box. Checkout what I am talking about in some of the code posts, for example in the posts here and here. Here is how it is done. Continue reading
The puzzle is to implement basic queue operations with using only basic stack operations. That is, a stack object is given, we need construct a wrapper for the queue functions, insert, remove, which will only use the stack object as its storage, and naturally will have to use the stack operations. I have already posted the opposite task in the post Implement stack using a queue
This can be done using two stack objects. We call these the first stack and the second stack. Although either the insert or the remove complexity will no more be O(1).
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When we need packages in R we install them. May be some time you wanted to have a look what packages were installed in your system and also what there version numbers are. Although rarely you would like to do this, here is a small tip on how to do it. Continue reading
We had assignments to print “*”s in different formation in undergraduate class, which I never liked as they were pointless. Now I got a somewhat justifiable application, plot histogram in terminal. In the last post Generating random numbers from Normal distribution in C I posted the C code to generate random numbers from the Normal distribution using the Polar method. In this post I am posting a simple code to plot the histogram of generated random numbers from this or any other distribution. Let me first post the code and then explain what is going on. Continue reading
I needed to write a random number generator in C which will generate random numbers from Normal Distribution (Gaussian Distribution). Without this component I couldn’t proceed to finish writing a C code for Heuristic Kalman Algorithm by Lyonnet and Toscano for some experiments. I selected the Marsaglia and Bray method also known as the Polar method to generate Normal random variables. Here is how it is done. Continue reading
C LANGUAGE USERS!
Y U NO SEE STANDARDS!
I had to make this. There are people who give a damn to the standards and follow the stone age Turbo C 3.1 compiler, run programs compiled by it. In the cases for compiler dependent and undefined behaviours, they try to guess in some way why the output was like that and get into a conclusion. Continue reading
Here is another C code snippet question. Consider the following piece of code, and spot if there is a problem in it or not.
#include <stdio.h>
int main (void)
{
int x = 5;
+x += 1;
printf ("%d\n", +x);
return 0;
}
You won’t like to loose the variables and the command history generated after hours or days of work in octave. It is a good idea to save the environment in intervals to create backup points in addition to save from crashes. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to save your working environment in octave. Continue reading
Here goes some stats of this blog for this year from wordpress.com. Not bad, but not satisfactory, the end year posting frequency was terrible.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 86,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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