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Bounty!
5:13 AM
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Q: Heuristics to Find Circuits Allowing for Vertex Revists

JeffW89I'm currently working on a project discussing applications of the Delaunay Triangulation, and the primary use-case is applications to TSP (or relaxations of the problem). See: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/letchfoa/articles/triangulations.pdf for context. One snag in the approach is that it...

graph-theory graph-traversal traveling-salesman
 
 
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Computer Science Meta
Computer Science Meta
11:53 AM
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Q: About the tag graph-algorithms

RaphaelApparently there's a tag graph-algorithms. My personal choices has been algorithms + graphs what I think covers graph algorithms pretty well. Do we need/want a dedicated tag graph-algorithms? If not, can we keep it as a synonym in some way?

discussion tags tag-synonyms
 
 
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Raphael
Raphael
1:06 PM
Anyone in favor of keeping this question?
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Q: Data types for storing arbitrarily much information

felix9801I've heard that YouTube had a problem with the view count on Gangnam style since the number of views exceeded the variable byte size. What's the problem with creating really large variables? Why does it end with unsigned long, for example? Can you create bigger and bigger variables to hold more...

memory-management arithmetic
I think it's offtopic. Maybe it can be cast as a programming language design question, but the OP is just naively asking "can I create data types for arbitrary amounts of data", for which the CS answer is "clearly, yes". In reality, the answer is different, which is why I think this question should be on Stack Overflow.
The fact that there does not seem to be a fitting tag speaks volumes.
 
Gilles
Gilles
1:50 PM
@Raphael it's on-topic, it's a programming language design question, and it's on my to-answer list but I'm swamped and haven't had time to give it a proper answer
also on my to-answer, the meta thread about the tagging
 
Raphael
Raphael
@Gilles If you say so. The current answers are SO-answers, with maybe the exception of @WanderingLogic's.
 
 
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vzn
vzn
3:15 PM
agreed its on topic, maybe marginally. there are crosscutting CS patterns for large data. another example: "blobs" (binary large objects). its not trivial/ easy. notice they were added to db's at later dates after other "simpler" datatypes were handled. the question could be improved if the story about the google gangnam # count was cited. admittedly it could be urban legend, but that wouldnt invalidate the question, quite to the contrary, questions about urban legends can make good FAQ items.
 
 
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EvilJS
EvilJS
6:28 PM
Is it possible to post a script at any place here? I am thinking of animation to support answer.
Interactive and parametric so no GIF
 
 
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Raphael
Raphael
8:53 PM
@EvilJS Afaik, no. I use Github's Gists for code and (obviously) Imgur for images; I don't know where you could put interactive stuff in a sustainable way.
 
Gilles
Gilles
@EvilJS On Stack Overflow, you can make snippets of Javascript/HTML/CSS executable directly in the browser. The purpose of the feature is to illustrate posts about JS/HTML/CSS. It could be useful for diagrams and animations too, but there's also a lot of potential for abuse (the JS is sandboxed but the sandbox could have bugs, the JS code can be slow, it might conflict with Mathjax...).
I suggest that you post a feature request on Computer Science Meta and give examples where you would have used them
It'll probably take a while before it's enabled, if it ever is, but if nobody requests it, it'll never be enabled
Introducing Runnable JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Code Snippets
David Haney on September 16, 2014
On Stack Overflow and our other code-related sites, creating a minimal, complete, and verifiable example is the best way to get an answer to your question. We’ve always loved JSFiddle and sites like it because they let both askers and answerers reference runnable, working code that demonstrates their problem or solution.
 
 
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EvilJS
EvilJS
10:13 PM
Ok. I will issue this.
Sorry for making trouble, I kinda missunderstood two questions, and deleted my post afterwards, but one of them is still there.
I have several more ;) I casted many votes, but in profile I have dozen of them only, something is refusing my upvotes.
 

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