Since migrating to Windows Server 2008 Datacenter for our Amazon EC2 instances I have noticed on many occasions that when a new instance is starting up RAC agent will cause the CPU to spike up to 100% for a good half an hour, at times the CPU spike never comes down and effectively renders the …
Occasionally you might want to make the value of a static or instance field local to a thread (i.e. each thread holds an independent copy of the field), what you need in this case, is a thread-local storage. In C#, there are mainly two ways to do this. ThreadStatic You can mark a field with …
Problem In the card game poker, a hand consists of five cards and are ranked, from lowest to highest, in the following way: High Card: Highest value card. One Pair: Two cards of the same value. Two Pairs: Two different pairs. Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same value. Straight: All cards are …
Problem The rules for writing Roman numerals allow for many ways of writing each number (see FAQ:Roman Numerals). However, there is always a “best” way of writing a particular number. For example, the following represent all of the legitimate ways of writing the number sixteen: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII VIIIIIIIIIII VVIIIIII XIIIIII VVVI XVI The last example being …
Problem Consider quadratic Diophantine equations of the form: x2 – Dy2 = 1 For example, when D=13, the minimal solution in x is 6492 – 13×1802 = 1. It can be assumed that there are no solutions in positive integers when D is square. By finding minimal solutions in x for D = {2, 3, …
Oh, the Pain! Now and again we all come across an object which requires initialization before it can be used but with nothing there to stop us from trying to use it before it’s initialized. In most cases you will get a seemingly unrelated exception (e.g. null reference when the object tries to use some …
Problem Let p(n) represent the number of different ways in which n coins can be separated into piles. For example, five coins can separated into piles in exactly seven different ways, so p(5)=7. OOOOO OOOO O OOO OO OOO O O OO OO O OO O O O O O O O O Find the …
Problem It is possible to write ten as the sum of primes in exactly five different ways: 7 + 3 5 + 5 5 + 3 + 2 3 + 3 + 2 + 2 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 What is the first value which can be written as the …
Problem It is possible to write five as a sum in exactly six different ways: 4 + 1 3 + 2 3 + 1 + 1 2 + 2 + 1 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 How many different ways can one hundred be …
Problem The 5-digit number, 16807=75, is also a fifth power. Similarly, the 9-digit number, 134217728=89, is a ninth power. How many n-digit positive integers exist which are also an nth power? Solution
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