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Algorithms & data structures

The optimization of programming methods and organization of information to achieve a desired result more efficiently.

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Algorithms & data structures

random sampling

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

Using a randomly selected sample of the data to help solve a problem on the whole data.

cellular automaton

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

Usually a two-dimensional organization of simple finite state machines whose next state depends on their own state and the states of their eight closest neighbors. In general the machines may be ...

chromatic index

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

The minimum number of colors needed to color the edges of a graph.

chromatic number

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

The minimum number of colors needed to color the vertices of a graph such that no two adjacent vertices have the same color.

negation

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

The negation of 0 is 1; the negation of 1 is 0.

Lotka's law

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

The number of authors making n contributions is about 1/n a of those making one contribution, where a is often nearly 2.

Hamming distance

Computer science; Algorithms & data structures

The number of bits which differ between two binary strings. More formally, the distance between two strings A and B is ∑

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