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Not quite the terminator? Are you sure?
I cannot remember that far in my life, but as a baby I was able to understand the concept of adding and subtracting. Children by the age of 18 months can understand the concept of increasing and decreasing. Think about the shape sorters, they disappear or think about building a tower with some cubes, it…
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Innovation by evolution … the rise of the machine
A few years ago when I was working for Cambridge University, I attended a very interesting seminar on the architecture of microprocessors. At that time, the new Pentium 4 was just released and its innovative architecture was revolutionising not only the microchips architecture, but also the motherboard used in our personal computers and laptops. The…
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Recurrence, Recursion and Iterations
Recurrence, Recursion and Iterations The author discusses the differences and relationships between these there important concepts. If any readers had read the popular fiction the Da Vinci Code, they would remember its gruesome start. They could be excused to have forgotten the anagram of numbers written on the floor of Le Louvre. This sequence of numbers…
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