Monte Carlo arithmetic operations
Working out whether software based calculations involving floating-point values delivers a sensible answer requires lots of mathematical sophistication and in practice is often impractical or...
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Readability, an experimental view
Readability is an attribute that source code is often claimed to have, but what is it? While people are happy to use the term they have great difficulty in defining exactly what it is (I will...
View ArticleCode generation via machine learning
Commercial compiler implementors have to produce compilers that are capable of being used on a typical developer computer. A whole bunch of optimization techniques were known for years but could not be...
View ArticleTransition probabilities when adjacent sequence items must be different
Generating a random sequence from a fixed set of items is a common requirement, e.g., given the items A, B and C we might generate the sequence BACABCCBABC. Often the randomness is tempered by...
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Sequence generation with no duplicate pairs
Given a fixed set of items (say, 6 A, 12 B and 12 C) what algorithm will generate a randomised sequence containing all of these items with any adjacent pairs being different, e.g., no AA, BB or CC in...
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