It can be posited that strings are the most important data type in computing. Without character strings, all we have is a calculator. It is strings which allow us to compose documents, read and send emails, program in anything higher level than binary,
Digital Search Trees are an interesting data structure. Often times they are used as a gentle introduction to bit-oriented data structures, such as PATRICIA tries. Having just covered some other bit focused data structures and algorithms in the previou
One of the most ubiqitous algorithms in data compression is Huffman Coding. Developed in 1951 by David Huffman while a student at MIT, Huffman Coding makes use of a special type of binary tree called a huffman coding trie. Every message or fil
The Lempel-Ziv family of algorithms were introduced by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in two papers over the course of 1977 & 1978. The algorithms detailed in those papers have come to be known as lz77 (lz1) and lz78(lz2), respectively. Since being i
In the early days of computing storage space was at a premium. It might hard to reconcile with now that having terrabytes of diskspace and gigabytes of ram in the average laptop that for a computer to have megabytes of storage available wouldn
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Ternary Search Tries: String Specific Ordered Symbol Tables
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Digital Search Trees
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Lossless Compression Part III: Huffman Coding
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Lossless Compression Part II: The LZ77 Algorithm
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Lossless Compression Part I: Working with Bits in a Byte Oriented World
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Bottom Up AVL Tree: The OG Self-Balancing Binary Search Tree
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A Different Take on Merge Sort: Binary Search Trees?
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Deleting Entries From Open-Address Hash tables
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Transform any Binary Search Tree in to a Sorted Linked List
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From Regular Expressions To NFA by way of Abstract Syntax Trees: Thompsons Construction