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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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Algorithms, past, present and future …
From an early age, primary school pupils learn they can divide 14 by 4. They share 14 sweets in 4 plates, by mechanically drawing or putting one sweet at a time in each plate of the four plates. They repeat this process until they have less sweets left than they are plates available. As they…
Interesting Computing 