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An algorithm is a sequence of well-defined steps that defines an abstract solution to a problem. Use this tag when your issue is related to design and analysis of algorithms.

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Compute equality comparison without comparison operators

Since all arithmetic operations return an integer, and the result of an equality comparison must be a boolean, this is clearly impossible. Edit for updated question: This should do the trick in C: …
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Finding a 4-clique among $k$ node groups

First of all, the greedy strategy you outlined does not work. It may be possible that the node with highest degree is in a clique with lower total degree than the clique with the maximum degree. Seco …
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Linked list implementation problem

This should really be on StackOverflow, not Computer Science, but here's an answer anyway. There are a few points. First of all, your code is not a linked list. You created an unbounded array, an arr …
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Can a Boolean circuit be considered an algorithm?

I don't think so, because when we think of algorithms (say as Turing machines), they allow the input to be any size. …
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Finding number not in list with wildcards

Reduce from SAT. Consider a CNF formula $\phi = C_1 \land C_2 \land \ldots \land C_m$ over a set of variables $\{x_i\}_{i=1}^n$. Construct an instance of your problem as follows: For each clause $C_i …
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Which of these simple data structures is most efficient when implementing a Dequeue?

We need to clearly separate interface interfaces (abstract data types) from implementation. You talk about implementing a deque, an ADT, in terms of a stack or queue, but those are themselves ADTs. We …
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