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Recursion in computer science is a method of problem solving where the solution to a problem depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem.

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extents_to_array and array_to_extents functions for Boost.MultiArray in C++

This is a follow-up question for A get_extents helper function for Boost.MultiArray in C++. In order to retrieve, manipulate and calculate size information in each dimension from Boost.MultiArray in ...
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Lisp expression parser

I'm building a very simple Lisp interpreter. Similar to the the one from here. Here is what I have so far for the parsing part, that is, everything from "text is passed to the the program" ...
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Enumerating all fixed-length paths from a vertex in a graph

Enumerating all fixed-length paths from a vertex in a graph 1. Graph-related classes Base implementations of the relevant classes in my graph library. I'm using C#9 in a .NET 5 project. I opted to use ...
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A recursive_transform Template Function with Unwrap Level for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable concept in C++ and A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with ...
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A batch_recursive_count_if Function with Unwrap Level for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count_if Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++ and A recursive_count_if Function with Unwrap Level for Various Type ...
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Efficiently calculate value of Pascal's Triangle using memoization and recursion(updated)

Follow up to Efficiently calculate value of Pascal's Triangle using memoization and recursion Based on feedback given by jvwh in the answers ...
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Recursive type checking for containers

This code checks the type, length and depth (highest number of nested containers) of the container as well as the type of its sub-containers and its elements. There are also two simple methods for ...
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Efficiently calculate value of Pascal's Triangle using memoization and recursion

So reading about functional programming, applications to dynamic programming, and learning Scala. I figured I would try it out with a popular example, Pascal's Triangle, tests against known values ...
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A recursive function to reverse string

Write a recursive version of the function reverse(s), which reverses the string s in place. I'm studying K&R and wrote a code for the question. ...
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String tokenizer

Objective: Create a function called wordsAndSpaces that splits a string on groups of spaces, preserving each group of space characters as a single token. Example: <...
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Maintaining state while walking a tree structure

The following code creates a simple tree structure and then walks through the tree looking for node with the value 9 that appears after we have seen a node with the value 1 and a node with the value 4 ...
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Pokemon Soul Link tracker

I've just finished writing a program to help track Pokemon across Soul Links. The goal of the program is to take in the names of the two Pokemon alongside the route that they were caught on. The ...
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C++17 Recursive Fibonacci calculation with memoization

Compiler is g++ 4.2. I'm new to C++, but I've done a lot of data science, web scraping, and some socketing stuff in Python. This code generates the nth Fibonacci number, either with a naive ...
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Downloading and parsing research papers

I am trying to write a script which gets a research paper from a website by calling their API and then traverse it sentence-wise with some conditions. The paper is accessible in XML format. I am ...
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“Sequence full of colors” challenge on HackerRank

This is the challenge: You are given a sequence of N balls in 4 colors: red, green, yellow and blue. The sequence is full of colors if and only if all of the ...
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Guess Number Game - Console based game using Java

This game is pretty common for beginner projects. I wrote a version of this before all in Main - so here I challenge myself to recreate it in a more OO style. I wanted to take a more OO approach, so ...
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Advent of Code 2020, Day 10 in Ruby

I'm an amateur programmer making a career change into web development. I've found Advent of Code challenges are great way to sharpen my skills. I've cleaned up this solution for Day 10, 2020 as much ...
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DFS-based exhaustive word grid search

I have implemented an exhaustive depth-first grid search that searches for all possible words in the 8 connected regions. Is there any way I can make this faster or memory efficient than it is now? I ...
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Finding acronyms with >=1 letters at the start of each consecutive word

Problem I'm seeking a clean and efficient way to determine whether one string is an initialism/acronym of another. Example: IBM => International Business Machines However, a key condition for my ...
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A recursive_count Function with Unwrap Level for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++, A recursive_count_if Function with Unwrap Level for Various Type Arbitrary ...
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Find a powerset of a set in C

The code below is an implementation of purely recursive solution to find a powerset of any given set. The input set is a string, and the output - array of strings. Both of them are wrapped into a ...
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Primality Test Refactoring

I devised a new primality test isPrimeNumber() below which determines if 1000000007 is prime. It works fine but the code looks unprofessional in my opinion. Is there any way to refactor it to make it ...
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A Function Applier for Applying Various Algorithms on Nested Container Things in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_replace_if Template Function Implementation in C++, A recursive_copy_if Template Function Implementation in C++, A recursive_count_if Function with Unwrap ...
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A recursive_replace_copy_if Template Function Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_copy_if Template Function Implementation in C++. Besides the recursive version std::ranges::copy_if, I am trying to ...
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A recursive_copy_if Template Function Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform for std::vector with various return type and A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable concept in C++. Besides ...
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A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with recursive_invoke_result_t and std::ranges::transform in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable concept in C++, A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable ...
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Nested std::deque and std::vector Type Test Cases for recursive_transform Template Function in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable concept in C++, A recursive_transform Template Function ...
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A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable Concept and Execution Policy in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable concept in C++ and A recursive_transform Template ...
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A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable concept in C++

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A recursive_count_if Template Function with Execution Policy in C++

This is a follow-up question for Avoiding requires clause if possible on a series recursive function in C++ and A recursive_count_if Function with Automatic Type Deducing from Lambda for Various Type ...
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Avoiding requires clause if possible on a series recursive function in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform_reduce Function for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++, A recursive_count Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested ...
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A recursive_transform_reduce Function for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A population_variance Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++. Thanks to G. Sliepen's answer, I am trying to implement the mentioned <...
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A population_variance Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A Summation Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++, An arithmetic_mean Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable ...
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A Various Container Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Generator Function Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for std::array and std::vector Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Generator Functions Implementation in C++ and std::deque and std::list Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable ...
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Non-nested std::deque and std::list Generator Function for arithmetic_mean Function Testing in C++

This is a follow-up question for A non-nested test_vectors_generator Function for arithmetic_mean Function Testing in C++ and An arithmetic_mean Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable ...
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Pretty print directory structure in a JSON recursively

I am trying to pretty print the directory structure defined in a JSON. I do have a solution using recursion but I'm looking for feedback on how this solution can be ...
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A non-nested test_vectors_generator Function for arithmetic_mean Function Testing in C++

This is a follow-up question for An arithmetic_mean Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++. As Toby Speight's answer mentioned, some self-checking unit tests are ...
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An arithmetic_mean Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++ and A Summation Function For Boost.MultiArray in C++. I am trying to ...
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Java recursive sort verification function for a linked list

It should return true, if there is no element that follow or the following elements are greater than their predecessors. ...
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LeetCode: Stone Game C#

https://leetcode.com/problems/stone-game/ Alex and Lee play a game with piles of stones. There are an even number of piles arranged in a row, and each pile has a positive integer number of stones ...
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std::deque and std::list Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Generator Functions Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for std::array and std::vector Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Generator Functions Implementation in C++ and the previous questions about recursive functions, including A ...
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std::array and std::vector Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Generator Functions Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for the previous questions about recursive functions, including A Summation Function For Arbitrary Nested Vector Implementation In C++, A recursive_count_if Function For ...
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A recursive_count_if Function with Unwrap Level for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count_if Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++, A recursive_count_if Function with Specified value_type for Various ...
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A recursive_count_if Function with Automatic Type Deducing from Lambda for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count_if Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++ and A recursive_count_if Function with Specified value_type for Various ...
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Sudoku solver program written in modern c++

This is a simple program that solves a given Sudoku puzzle recursively. The input is provided as a file that contains the cells, 0 if empty, delimited by a , ...
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A recursive_count_if Function with Specified value_type for Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count_if Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++. Thanks to Quuxplusone's answer and G. Sliepen's comments. Based on the ...
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Money change exam

I was asked to create a method that would: Return a Change object or null if there was no possible change The "machine" has unlimited bills of: 2, 5 and 10 The Change object must return the ...
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A recursive_count_if Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A recursive_count Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++. Thanks to G. Sliepen's answer. Based on the mentioned suggestion, the ...
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A recursive_count Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++

This is a follow-up question for A Summation Function For Arbitrary Nested Vector Implementation In C++ and A Summation Function For Various Type Arbitrary Nested Iterable Implementation in C++. ...

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