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## Modern C++ concurrency - parallel quick-sort with std::future

In this short lesson we will discuss how to parallelize a simple and rather inefficient (because this is not an in-place version) implementation of quick-sort using asynchronous tasks and futures. We will perform some benchmarking and performance analysis and we will try to understand how we can further improve our implementation. Quick sort In this section, I will briefly refresh your memory on quick-sort. I will do so by showing you a simple and self-explicative Haskell version first. We will also write a C++ (serial) version of the same code implementation C++ that we will use as a basis for our parallelization. Here it goes… Read More »Modern C++ concurrency - parallel quick-sort with std::future

## Solution to the Codility Common Prime divisors Set Problem

This article discusses (a problem that I recently solved on codility ).

The core of the problem is the following:
Given two non negative integers N and M, , the task is to check whether they have the same set of prime divisors.
A prime divisor of an integer P is a prime d s.t. for some positive . You are given up to of such queries, and should return the total number of them that evaluates to true.

For instance given if and then our function should return *true* because the set of prime divisor of is equal the
the set of primal divisor of i.e. while for and the function should return *false*.

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# Weighted Tree Vertex Cover Problem

Vertex cover of graph  is defined as  s.t.  . In other word a subset of the vertices such that all vertices are incident to a vertex in the vertex cover.
We will derive an algorithm for finding the weight of a minimal (yes is not unique) vertex cover for a subclass of graphs i.e. tree (which are acyclic graphs with the property that only one path between each vertex exists).

Remember that vertex cover for graphs is an NP-Complete (NP-hard and NP, hard at least as all NP problems and it is an NP problem itself) problem i.e. no deterministic polynomial tyme algorithm was discovered (if you discover one, contact me, we will be millionaire).

# Tree Vertex Cover - Problem Definition

Given a weighted tree  with  write an algorithm for computing a vertex cover with minimum weight i.e. V' is a vertex cover and the sum of the weight of its element is minimal.

The following is the tree structure that we will use throughout the article.

template<typename T,int DEGREE>
struct node{
array<node*,DEGREE> children;

T data;
int weight;

node(const T& v , int _weight) : weight(_weight){
data=v;
mincover=0;
}
};



What if the weight is equal to the degree of the node?

The first observation we can make is that the root node can weather be or not be in the vertex cover. If we include it in the solution then we are sure that all the edges from it to its children have been covered and to solve the problem we need only to compute the cover of its children (which is a simpler problem).Read More »Tree Vertex Cover Problem

## List Cycle Detection

List Cycle Detection Linked list cycle detection problem is a very instructive and fun problem to reason about. This article will state the problem first and then explains how we can solve it efficiently while giving some insight on the underlying math. A list can gets corrupted and some node can be linked by more than one node, as in the following figure. This could lead to never ending traversal of the list. So it make sense to solve the following problem: List Cycle Detection - Problem Statement Given  a linked list, detect if the list is circular i.e. contains a cycle Find the starting… Read More »List Cycle Detection

# Fibonacci serie - Knuth multiplication - Java

Leonardo Fibonacci,the Italian mathematician (from Pisa, 1170, one of the most important mathematician of all time) invented the famous serie defined recursively as follows:

We all know that as programmers once in life (at least) we will write some piece of code to compute the element of the serie. Recursive implementation is straightforward but inefficient, due to the exponential number of recursive calls, that make "hard" to compute numbers bigger that 40. It is very easy to come up with some iterative or memoised implementation, that lowers the complexity to and allows to efficently compute "any" number of the serie.
In this post we will derive an implementation (JAVA) that have complexity 1)using results from Knuth, Fibonacci multiplication,1988.Read More »Yet Another one on Fibonacci serie - Knuth multiplication

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 1 ↑ using results from Knuth, Fibonacci multiplication,1988