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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Distributivity in Horner’s Rule
This is a continuation of my previous post on Horner’s Rule, and in particular, of the discussion there about distributivity in the datatype-generic version of the Maximum Segment Sum problem: the essential property behind Horner’s Rule is one of distributivity. … Continue reading
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Horner’s Rule
This post is about my all-time favourite calculation, of a linear-time algorithm for the maximum segment sum problem, based on Horner’s Rule. The problem was popularized in Jon Bentley’s Programming Pearls series in CACM (and in the subsequent book), but … Continue reading
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Patterns in Functional Programming 