FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper is devoted to the “Discovery of Slowness.” The archetypical perversely awful algorithm bogo-sort, which is sometimes referred to as Monkey-sort, is analyzed with ele...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
A spreadsheet, especially MS Excel, is probably one of the most popular software applications for personal-computer users and gives us convenient and user-friendly tools for drawin...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
Architectures for optical processors designed to solve bounded instances of NP-Complete problems are suggested. One approach mimics the traveling salesman by traveling beams that ...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
A spoonerism is a sentence in some natural language where the swapping of two letters results in a new sentence with a different meaning. In this paper, we give some efficient algo...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper, we consider the question: what is the worst possible page-replacement strategy? Our goal is to devise an online strategy that has the highest possible fraction of mi...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
We discuss some new geometric puzzles and the complexity of their extension to arbitrary sizes. For gate puzzles and two-layer puzzles we prove NP-completeness of solving them. No...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
The Hydra was a many-headed monster from Greek mythology that would immediately replace a head that was cut off by one or two new heads. It was the ask of Hercules to kill this mon...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
We analyse transports between leaves in an edge-weighted tree. We prove under which conditions there exists a transport matching the weights of a given tree. We use this to compute...
FUN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper we investigate the relations between knitting and computer science. We show that the two disciplines share many concepts. Computer science, in particular algorithm th...