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Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

ISBN: 0470121688
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2007
Pages: 81

Authors: Dennis Shasha

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• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Puzzles for Programmers and Pros
• Introduction
• Contest Info
• p2p.wrox.com
• Part I: Mind Games
• Competition-We Cant All Be Winners.
• Byzantine Bettors
• A Touch of Luck
• Information Gain
• Reach for the Sky
• Pork Politics
• Social Games
• Escape Management
• Flu Math
• Design-Imagination Rules
• Optimal Jargon
• Using Your Marbles
• Flipping Colors
• Scheduling Tradition
• Fractal Biology
• As Easy as Pie
• Chance-Getting On the Right Side of Luck
• Legal Logic
• The Box Chip Game
• Feedback Dividends
• Inference-What are You Thinking?
• Mind Games
• Refuse and Reveal
• A Biting Maze
• Mad Mix
• Optimization-Doing More with Less
• Preferential Romance
• No Change for the Holidays
• Quiet in the Depths
• Solutions
• Part II: The Secret of the Puzzle
• The Puzzles
• Urban Planning
• Finding a Schedule That Works
• Picturing the Treasure
• Sudoku
• Number Encoding
• Selective Greed
• Sweet Packs
• Revisiting a Traveling Salesman
• Overloaded Scheduling and Freezing Crystals
• Wordsnakes
• Maximal Friends
• Winning at the Slots
• Understanding Dice
• Bait and Switch
• Part III: Faithful Foes
• Faithful Foes
• Index
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• List of Figures
• List of Sidebars