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John L.
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Here are some of the harder questions or the more interesting questions that I have answered.

How can you convince your colour-blind friend that two balls have the same colour?
Filling bins with pairs of balls
Finding the cheapest buy order with fixed inflation for each product
Solving recurrence relation with minimum and factorial
Primitive recursive plus Ackermann
Does this context-free grammar generate a regular language?
Minimum and maximum of sum of inverse degree of a graph
Proof of a greedy algorithm concerning “Buy and Resell Problem”
How to produce nonzero absolute differences between neighboring numbers on a circle as long as possible?
lower bound proof with adversary argument
How to solve F(n)=F(n-1)+F(n-2)+f(n) recursive function?
When is the minimum spanning tree for a graph not unique

Here are some counterexamples in my answers.

All superlinear runtime algorithms are asymptotically equivalent to convex function?
Finding the longest path in an undirected node-weighted tree
Gerrymandering Problem: Variant on Set Partitioning
Does an optimal path imply the heuristic is admissible?
Rooted Tree Isomorphism Algorithm
Local search to find minimum degree spanning tree
Steiner tree problem in graphs of diameter 3
Does every infinite context free language contain an infinite regular subset?
Is a set of acyclic |V| - 1 light edges always a Minimum Spanning Tree?

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What is this data structure/concept where a plot of points defines a partition to a space
Jan 22, 2019
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Are there variations of the regular runtimes of the Big-O-Notation?
May 9, 2019
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Is the Berkeley tutorial on Fibonacci trees using wrong figures?
Jan 10
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"Guess the number" Problem on Turing machines
Feb 17
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Dynamic Programming vs Memoization
Nov 2, 2018
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Prove that every substring closed language L ⊆ {0, 1}* is regular
Feb 20
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How can you convince your colour-blind friend that two balls have the same colour?
Apr 11
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Can I use the following method to prove an algorithm is correct?
Jan 27, 2020
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Prove or Disprove: an infinite intersection of regular languages is a context-free language
Jun 25, 2020
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Do any two spanning trees of a simple graph always have some common edges?
Dec 5, 2018
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How find the minimum of the $ f_n (x) = ( \sum_{i=1} ^ {n} | x-i | )^2 - \sum_{i=1} ^{n} (x-i)^2 .$
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there exist postive integer $N$, such for all $n\ge N$,we have $x_{n}x_{n+1}\le 0$

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