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SCP
2011
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12 years 12 months ago
On Euclid's algorithm and elementary number theory
Roland Carl Backhouse, João F. Ferreira
SIAMCOMP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Holographic Algorithms
Leslie Valiant recently proposed a theory of holographic algorithms. These novel algorithms achieve exponential speed-ups for certain computational problems compared to naive algo...
Leslie G. Valiant
CPM
2001
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
A Very Elementary Presentation of the Hannenhalli-Pevzner Theory
In 1995, Hannenhalli and Pevzner gave a first polynomial solution to the problem of finding the minimum number of reversals needed to sort a signed permutation.Their solution, a...
Anne Bergeron
IPL
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
A note on the distribution of the number of prime factors of the integers
The Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds are fundamental probabilistic tools. An elementary approach is presented to obtain a Chernoff-type upper-tail bound for the number of prime factors o...
Aravind Srinivasan
MOC
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Comparison of algorithms to calculate quadratic irregularity of prime numbers
In previous work, the author has extended the concept of regular and irregular primes to the setting of arbitrary totally real number fields k0, using the values of the zeta functi...
Joshua Holden