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Encyclopedia - Collision Detection: Encyclopedia - Collision Detection
In physical simulations, video games and computational geometry, collision detection includes algorithms from checking for collision, i.e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter
An analog-to-digital converter (abbreviated ADC, A/D, or A to D) is a device that converts continuous signals to discrete digital numbers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory: Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory
In computer science, computational complexity theory is the branch of the theory of computation that studies the resources required durin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Np Complexity: Encyclopedia Ii - Np Complexity - Introduction And Applications
The importance of this class of decision problems is that it contains many interesting searching and optimization problems where we want ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Computational Complexity Theory - Overview
After the theory explaining which problems can be solved and which cannot be, it was natural to ask about the relative computational diff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Nth-root Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Nth-root Algorithm - Algorithm
Shifting nth-root algorithm - Notation. Let B be the base of the number system you are using, and n be the degree of the root to be ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collision Detection: Encyclopedia Ii - Collision Detection - Collision Detection In Physical Simulation
Physical simulators usually function one of two ways, we shall refer to them as the a posteriori and a priori methods. In addition to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Light Gun: Encyclopedia Ii - Light Gun - How Light Guns Work
The "light gun" is so named because it uses light as its method of detecting where on screen you are targeting. The name leads one to bel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Insertion Sort: Encyclopedia Ii - Insertion Sort - Variants
D.L. Shell made substantial improvements to the algorithm, and the modified version is called Shell sort. It compares elements separated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Independent Set Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Independent Set Problem - Description
Given a graph G, an independent set is a subset of its vertices that are pairwise not adjacent. In other words, the subgraph induced by t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dynamic-link Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Dynamic-link Library - Features
Dynamic-link library - Memory management. In Win32, the DLL files are organized into sections. Each section has its own set of attribut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - What's My Line?: Encyclopedia Ii - What's My Line? - Alternate Versions
What's My Line? - Versions in the United States. A weekly American CBS radio version of What's My Line? was produced from May 1952 unt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Adc Structures
These are the most common ways of implementing an electronic ADC: A direct conversion ADC or flash ADC has a comparator that fires for e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Search Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Search Algorithm - Uninformed Search
An uninformed search algorithm is one that does not take into account the specific nature of the problem. As such, they can be implemente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Searching Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - String Searching Algorithm - Other Classification
Other classification approaches are possible. One of the most common uses preprocessing as main criteria. String searching algorithm - N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Divide And Conquer Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Divide And Conquer Algorithm - Advantages
Divide and conquer algorithm - Solving difficult problems. Divide and conquer is a powerful tool for solving conceptually difficult pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collision Detection: Encyclopedia Ii - Collision Detection - Overview
In physical simulation, we wish to conduct experiments, such as playing billiards. The physics of bouncing billiard balls are well unders...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - What's My Line?: Encyclopedia Ii - What's My Line? - Game Play
What's My Line? - Standard rounds. Each episode of What's My Line? featured two standard contestant rounds, sometimes more if time perm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - What's My Line?: Encyclopedia Ii - What's My Line? - Style Of The Show
What's My Line? is remembered as a celebration of urbanity and good manners in television. In the early years, business suits and street ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dynamic-link Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Dynamic-link Library - Background
The initial purpose for DLLs was saving both disk space and memory required for applications. Any code which many applications share coul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Divide And Conquer Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Divide And Conquer Algorithm - Disadvantages
One commonly argued disadvantage of a divide-and-conquer approach is that recursion is slow: the overhead of the repeated subroutine call...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Light Gun: Encyclopedia Ii - Light Gun - Light Guns In Video Games
The video game light gun is typically modeled on a ballistic weapon (usually a pistol) and is used for targeting objects on a video scree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dynamic-link Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Dynamic-link Library - Compiler And Language Considerations
Dynamic-link library - Delphi. In the heading of a source file, the keyword library is used instead of program. In the end of the file,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - What's My Line?: Encyclopedia Ii - What's My Line? - Hosts And Panelists
The original show was hosted by veteran radio and television newsman John Daly. Panelist Bennett Cerf often referred to him as John Charl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Independent Set Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Independent Set Problem - Algorithms
The simplest brute force algorithm for independent set simply examines every vertex subset of size at least k and checks whether it is an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Light Gun: Encyclopedia Ii - Light Gun - Positional Guns
In arcades, positional guns are fairly commonplace. A positional gun appears as a gun mounted to the cabinet on a swivel that allows for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dynamic-link Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Dynamic-link Library - Programming Examples
The following examples show language specific bindings for exporting symbols from DLLs. [Delphi] library Example; // Function that add...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Insertion Sort: Encyclopedia Ii - Insertion Sort - Comparisons To Other Sorts
Insertion sort is very similar to bubble sort. In bubble sort, after k passes through the array, the k largest elements have bubbled to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Searching Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - String Searching Algorithm - Basic Classification
The various algorithms can be classified by the number of patterns each uses. String searching algorithm - Single pattern algorithms. L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Computational Complexity Theory - Complexity Classes
The complexity class P is the set of decision problems that can be solved by a deterministic machine in polynomial time. This class corre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Computational Complexity Theory - The P = Np Question
The question of whether P is the same set as NP is the most important open question in theoretical computer science. There is even a $1,0...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Computational Complexity Theory - Intractability
Problems that are solvable in theory, but can't be solved in practice, are called intractable. What can be solved "in practice" is open t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computational Complexity Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Computational Complexity Theory - Decision Problems
Much of complexity theory deals with decision problems. A decision problem is a problem where the answer is always YES/NO. For example, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Application To Music Recording
ADCs are integral to much current music reproduction technology, since much music production is done on computers; even when analog recor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Aliasing
All ADCs work by sampling their input at discrete intervals of time. Their output is therefore an incomplete picture of the behaviour of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Dither
In A to D converters, performance can be improved using dither. This is a very small amount of random noise (white noise) which is added ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collision Detection: Encyclopedia Ii - Collision Detection - Collision Detection In Video Games
Video games have to split their very limited computing time between several tasks. This added to the limited resources of the programmers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Np Complexity: Encyclopedia Ii - Np Complexity - Why Some Np Problems Are Hard To Solve
Because of the many important problems in this class, there have been extensive efforts to find algorithms that decide the problems in NP...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Sampling Rate
The analog signal is continuous in time and it is necessary to convert this to a flow of digital values. It is therefore required to defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Search Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Search Algorithm - Informed Search
In an informed search, a heuristic that is specific to the problem is used as a guide. A good heuristic will make an informed search dram...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Divide And Conquer Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Divide And Conquer Algorithm - Implementation
Divide-and-conquer algorithms are naturally implemented as recursive procedures. In that case, the partial sub-problems leading to the on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Resolution
The resolution of the converter indicates the number of discrete values it can produce. It is usually expressed in bits. For example, an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Response Type
Analog-to-digital converter - Linear ADCs. Most ADCs are of a type known as linear, although analog-to-digital conversion is an inheren...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Np Complexity: Encyclopedia Ii - Np Complexity - Other Characterizations
There is also a simple logical characterization of NP: it contains precisely those languages expressible in second order logic restricted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Analog-to-digital Converter: Encyclopedia Ii - Analog-to-digital Converter - Accuracy
Accuracy depends on the error in the conversion. If the ADC is not broken, this error has two components: quantization error and (assumin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Divide And Conquer Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Divide And Conquer Algorithm - Variations
One variation of divide and conquer is called decrease and conquer, where a solution of problem depends on only one subproblem. There are...   » Read the article