Sciweavers

23 search results - page 5 / 5
» sigact 2008
Sort
View
SIGACT
1998
105views more  SIGACT 1998»
13 years 5 months ago
Everything you wanted to know about the running time of Mergesort but were afraid to ask
Although mergesort is an algorithm that is frequently glossed over in textbooks, it provides fertile ground for planting ideas about algorithm analysis in the minds of students. A...
Ian Parberry
SIGACT
2008
71views more  SIGACT 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
PCPs with small soundness error
The soundness error of a PCP verifier is the probability (usually denoted ) that the verifier accepts an incorrect input. We are interested in the smallest possible values of for...
Irit Dinur
SIGACT
2008
103views more  SIGACT 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Computational geometry column 50
Two long-open problems have been solved: (1) every sufficiently large planar point set in general position contains the vertices of an empty hexagon; (2) every finite collection o...
Joseph O'Rourke