[algogeeks] Re: 6 Pick Bet Grouping

2006-12-07 Thread smartdude
It is not vertex cover but an edge covering we are interested in. Sorry I have been out of touch with graphs for quite some time. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to

[algogeeks] Re: 6 Pick Bet Grouping

2006-12-03 Thread smartdude
this one might have some optimal substructure, though it's not exactly clear what that may be. I'll give it some thought. On Dec 1, 6:26 am, smartdude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading about hamming distance and clustering methods might help

[algogeeks] Re: 6 Pick Bet Grouping

2006-12-01 Thread smartdude
Reading about hamming distance and clustering methods might help. bullockbefriending bard wrote: A single 6 Pick bet looks like this: RACE1 RACE2RACE3RACE4 RACE5 RACE6 runner1 / runner 2 / runner 3 / runner4 / runner5 / runner6 - $amount e.g. we might have: 5 / 3 / 11 / 7

[algogeeks] Re: Random String Generation

2006-11-06 Thread smartdude
Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID Arunachalam wrote: Look at one way hashing algorithms. Which can map a password to some byte keys. I think MD5 will solve your purpose. But collisions are possible in MD5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 regards Arunachalam. On 11/2/06,

[algogeeks] Re: Algorithm for searching k-median across arrays

2006-07-26 Thread smartdude
Pseudocode: 1. Choose a pivot element from amongst the elements in the arrays. 2. Partition each array into sets with elements lesser and greater than the pivot element. 3. Compute the rank of the pivot element by adding the number of elements lesser than the pivot in each of the arrays. If the