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Vladimir worked for years making matrioshkas, those nesting dolls that certainly represent truly Russian craft. A matrioshka is a doll that may be opened in two halves, so that one finds another doll

ou are to simulate the playing of games of ``Accordian'' patience, the rules for which are as follows: Deal cards one by one in a row from left to right, not overlapping. Whenever the card matches it

Background  Many areas of Computer Science use simple, abstract domains for both analytical and empirical studies. For example, an early AI study of planning and robotics (STRIPS) used a block world

Problem D: ShellSort He made each turtle stand on another one's back And he piled them all up in a nine-turtle stack. And then Yertle climbed up. He sat down on the pile. What a wonderful view! H

A social research organization has determined a simple set of parameters to simulate the behavior of the political parties of our country. One of the parameters is a positive integer h (called the ha

Problem E: Expressions Arithmetic expressions are usually written with the operators in between the two operands (which is called infix notation). For example, (x+y)*(z-w) is an arithmetic express

Suppose you have to evaluate an expression like A*B*C*D*E where A,B,C,D and E are matrices.Since matrix multiplication is associative, the order in which multiplications are performed isarbitrary. How

In a serious attempt to downsize (reduce) the dole queue, The New National Green Labour Rhinoceros Party has decided on the following strategy. Every day all dole applicants will be placed in a large

You are given a string consisting of parentheses () and []. A string of this type is said to be correct: (a) if it is the empty string (b) if A and B are correct, AB is correct, (c) if A is correct

Queues and Priority Queues are data structures which are known to most computer scientists. The Team Queue, however, is not so well known, though it occurs often in everyday life. At lunch time the q