C is one of the most important and widely used of all programming languages. It is a powerful language that can be used not only to build general-purp
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Introduction Getting Started Hello World Dissecting "Hello World" Directives Namespaces Entry Streams The Lang
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int Find_Greatest_Common_Denominator(int x, int y) //Function that finds the Greatest Common Denominator ("GCD") between 2 integers { int a;
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There are a few things that form the common canon of education in (quantitative) finance, yet everybody knows they are not exactly true, useful, well-
Continue ReadingC++: Happy Numbers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A happy number is defined by the following process. Starting with any positive integer, replace the number
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Find the name of the host on which the routine is running. #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <limits.h> #inclu
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What would be the best approach to handle real-time intraday data storage? For personal research I've always imported from flat files only into mem
Continue ReadingC++: Multiplicative Digital Root
The multiplicative digital root (MDR) and multiplicative persistence (MP) of a number, n, is calculated rather like the Digital root except digits are
Continue ReadingC++: JSON
Load a JSON string into a data structure. Also create a new data structure and serialize it into JSON. Use objects and arrays (as appropriate for y
Continue ReadingC++: Sample Covariance
double sample_covariance(double A[], double B[], int length) // Function calculates the sample covariance the array A and array B, whose lengths
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