April 2021 – JACK TRAINER

Designing algorithms for parallel computing

1 Comment / Computational Statistics, Computer Science, Operational Research / Jack Trainer

Computers aren’t getting faster anymore. Well, computers are still getting “faster” but not in the traditional sense. The speed of computerswas historically given in terms of the clock speed or frequency of the Central Processing Unit (CPU). After the introduction of the first commercial CPU in 1971 (The intel C4004 that I’ve attempted to capture […]

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Solving the Tower of Hanoi puzzle using recursion

In the puzzle known as Tower of Hanoi (named after the style of buddhist temples in Vietnam, I assume) , you have three rods or pegs and a number of disks of different diameters. The puzzle begins with a set up like the one shown below (for three disks) where all of the disks are