Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by urbannomad » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 6:18 AM UTC

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
xlinux.nist.gov

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by quant18 » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 7:00 AM UTC

There's insane amounts of great stuff hidden in the various nooks and crannies of the NIST website. Some of my other favorites:

Engineering Statistics Handbook http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm

Digital Library of Mathematical Functions http://dlmf.nist.gov/

The Quantum Algorithm Zoo http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by thejbf » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 7:14 AM UTC

This dictionary looks like it's the index of The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by nrbafna » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 7:36 AM UTC

a two-minute css-pivot to make homepage a little easier on the eyes.

http://www.csspivot.com/az9fT

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by sphynx » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 7:50 AM UTC

Haha, there is a definition of Marlena:

Definition: A wonderful wife. Every man should have such an incredible wife. We got married in 1976, too, and life's only gotten better.

http://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//HTML/marlena.html

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by andrewcooke » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 12:09 PM UTC

"Don't use this to cheat" - how quaint. There was once a time when there was an economics of scarcity in information...

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by bmohlenhoff » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

So, how many of these algorithms do you think are covered by litigatable software patents?

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by achompas » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 1:20 PM UTC

nrbafna wrote: post #4

a two-minute css-pivot to make homepage a little easier on the eyes. http://www.csspivot.com/az9fT

I'm on Firefox 3.6 and this did nothing to the page's appearance.

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by beck5 » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 1:31 PM UTC

Interesting, Would be great if there were some sort of tag/taglike system for the properties/usages.

Re: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

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Post by nrbafna » Fri, Apr 29, 2011, 1:45 PM UTC

achompas wrote: post #8

nrbafna wrote: post #4

a two-minute css-pivot to make homepage a little easier on the eyes. http://www.csspivot.com/az9fT

I'm on Firefox 3.6 and this did nothing to the page's appearance.

Don't know what's wrong there.

Anyways, it's just a width, line-height, font changes. Just to show a little bit of CSS could have helped and is just for the homepage. Could make a custom css for it, if you want. The site is immensely useful, though.

also, here's a screenshot if you want to compare. http://i.imgur.com/fnu8L.png. again, nothing big though :)