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Algorithm of the Week: Multiplication

Introduction Perhaps right after the addition at school we’ve learned how to multiply two numbers. This algorithm isn’t as easy as addition, but...

0 replies - 3649 views - 01/15/13 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Bonus Algorithm: Run-Length Encoding

Introduction Run-length encoding is a data compression algorithm that helps us encode large runs of repeating items by only sending one item from the run...

0 replies - 3010 views - 05/09/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Recursive and Iterative Merge Sort Implementations

Curator's Note: In response to Stoimen Popov's Algorithm of the Week Post: Merge Sort, Chaker Nakhli pointed out that Stoimen only presented a recursive...

1 replies - 13251 views - 03/07/12 by Chaker Nakhli in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Merge Sort

Basically sorting algorithms can be divided into two main groups: those based on comparisons and those that are not. I already posted about some of the...

2 replies - 33410 views - 03/06/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Shell Sort

Insertion sort is a great algorithm, because it’s very intuitive and it is easy to implement, but the problem is that it makes many exchanges for each...

2 replies - 11718 views - 02/28/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles