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SYNTHESE
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
Could there be exactly two things?
Many philosophers think that, necessarily, any material objects have a fusion (let's call that doctrine "Universalism"). In this paper I point out a couple of strang...
Juan Comesaña
EH
2004
IEEE
98views Hardware» more  EH 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
Self-Replication of 3D Universal Structures
After a survey of some realizations of self-replicating machines, this paper presents the construction based selfreplication of universal 3D structures. This self-replication proc...
André Stauffer, Daniel Mange, Enrico Petrag...
STOC
2003
ACM
117views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
16 years 4 months ago
Distinct distances in three and higher dimensions
Improving an old result of Clarkson et al., we show that the number of distinct distances determined by a set P of n points in three-dimensional space is (n77/141) = (n0.546 ), fo...
Boris Aronov, János Pach, Micha Sharir, G&a...
PODS
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  PODS 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
Secondary indexing in one dimension: beyond b-trees and bitmap indexes
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Rasmus Pagh, Srinivasa Rao Satti
SOFSEM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Weaknesses of Cuckoo Hashing with a Simple Universal Hash Class: The Case of Large Universes
Cuckoo hashing was introduced by Pagh and Rodler in 2001 [12]. A set S of n keys is stored in two tables T1 and T2 each of which has m cells of capacity 1 such that constant access...
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Ulf Schellbach