Monthly Archives: March 2022

Isolate the rightmost (least-significant) bit

Posted on March 27, 2022 by rendon

Fast & elegant: Tests Output Brute force Output for the new version Practice 231. Power of Two 191. Number of 1 Bits Related concepts Two’s complement

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Generate files with random bytes

Posted on March 25, 2022 by rendon

The following command grabs 20 Mb of random bytes from /dev/urandom and saves it to rnd.bin: Generate a bunch of files:

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Kadane’s algorithm

Posted on March 13, 2022 by rendon

I just learned about this algorithm, which is considered a dynamic programming approach. However, depending on the implementation, it might not resemble dynamic programming at all. Check out the implementation presented on Wikipedia: That does not look like dynamic programming … Continue reading →

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