The aim of this task is to provide a function to find the closest two points among a set of given points in two dimensions, i.e. to solve the Closest
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Create a sequence (array, list, whatever) consisting of n distinct, initialized items of the same type. n should be determined at runtime. By disti
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Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of
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This task is about incrementing a numerical string. // standard C++ string stream operators #include <cstdlib> #include <string> #in
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In bioinformatics, long character strings are often encoded in a format called FASTA. A FASTA file can contain several strings, each identified by a n
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Some programming languages allow calculation of values at compile time. For this task, calculate 10! at compile time. Print the result when the progra
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While implementing a recursive function, it often happens that we must resort to a separate "helper function" to handle the actual recursion. This
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Here is a piece of C++ code that seems very peculiar. For some strange reason, sorting the data miraculously makes the code almost six times faster.
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The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is an internationally agreed means of identifying bank accounts across national borders with a reduced ri
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The Hailstone sequence of numbers can be generated from a starting positive integer, n by: If n is 1 then the sequence ends. If n is even then
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