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David Richerby
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Why is the unit of image size not Pixel²?
Feb 13, 2018
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Is zero allowed as an edge's weight, in a weighted graph?
Jul 28, 2016
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Is a Turing Machine "by definition" the most powerful machine?
Dec 1, 2016
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How can a language whose compiler is written in C ever be faster than C?
Aug 22, 2015
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Is von Neumann's randomness in sin quote no longer applicable?
Mar 27, 2018
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Why don't compilers automatically insert deallocations?
Jan 12, 2017
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Order of growth definition from Reynolds & Tymann
Dec 21, 2015
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Why is the Turing Machine a popular model of computation?
May 11, 2018
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Why do we believe that PSPACE ≠ EXPTIME?
Dec 16, 2014
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Huffman encoding: why is there no need for a separator?
Apr 27, 2016
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Should we close as many questions on algorithm analysis as duplicates as we do?
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Burninate tag: pseudocode
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Please be careful when reviewing tag wiki edits
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Why is sugar not in a shaker?
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