Set membership check in Perl
Assume we represent a set by an array in Perl (so strictly speaking it is not merely a set but an ordered set). Now given an item, how to check if it is in the set or not?
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell / 2008
A nice leisure book from a good author.
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The Combinatorics of Network Reliability
Charles J. Colbourn / 1987
This is a book I know when I was reading a paper that cited it. I did not read it from cover to cover but something interesting inside.
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Ridoux and Veitch (2010) Principles of Robust Timing over the Internet (ACM Queue)
PC’s clock is an oscillator and HPET (high performance event timer) to count oscillator ticks. The time function is therefore \(C(t) = C_0 + p(t) \textrm{HPET}(t)\) where \(p(t)\) is the period of clock ticks and HPET is the tick count. Note, \(p(t)\) is varying slowly and therefore \(C(t)\) is not...
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Parallelism by tee in bash
This is what I did in my simulation processing code.
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