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Fingerprint is one of the biometrics used to identify a person. Alignment is an important step in fingerprint recognition, affecting greatly the speed and accuracy of matching. Ei...
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Parallel algorithms divide computation among several threads. In many cases, the input must also be divided. Consider an input consisting of a linear sequence of elements whose le...
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