Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) I have cried reading books, but this is the first one I can remember shedding tears just three pages in. The story…
Rating: ** (2 stars out of 5) This is a short history of maths. By short, I mean really short. Which is unfortunate, because there can be no justice…
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of dubbed Chinese Kung-Fu movies. Mongoose style against the Snake style and so on. I don’t believe they used to…
The simplest way to swap the values of two variables is to have a third variable that can temporarily hold the value of one variable while the other is being copied. This is very easy code, but a small problem is that we have to allocate extra memory. In these days of gigabytes of data,…
I will be posting some code from time to time. Some of these posts are from way back. I could probably rewrite them if I wanted to and perhaps in a different language, but there are bigger fish to fry. But maybe someone may find this useful. So this is the Kruskal’s algorithm which finds…