The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Abstract: The Binary search sort algorithm makes use of Binary Search and dynamically constructs a sorted array which is of O(N Log N) time complexity. The approach is not an in-place sorting ...

* - Swap 4 and 3. The 2nd level becomes [3,4]. * - Swap 7 and 5. The 3rd level becomes [5,6,8,7]. * - Swap 8 and 7. The 3rd level becomes [5,6,7,8]. * We used 3 operations so return 3. * It can be ...

The waste crisis is devastating our planet. A lot of the stuff we throw gets dumped in landfills. These massive waste disposal sites are often created by destroying forests or inhabitable lands. For ...

String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch of space, the theory says, and you won’t see a menagerie of ...

"For Binary-Search, each time we search, we search half the size of the array. This means the number of iterations we do increases by one, each time the size of the array doubles. For example, if we ...