Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 2264

For question borderline with, or having application to, computer science. Consider also posting http://cs.stackexchange.com/ or http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/ instead of here, if appropriate.

2 votes

What is the name of the function f(x,y) = ((x-1) mod y)+1 ?

You could conceivably describe this as the "least positive residue" modulo y (as opposed to the "least non-negative residue" modulo y).
Douglas S. Stones's user avatar
4 votes

Enumerative algorithm through inclusion-exclusion

Both yes and no. Let me illustrate... Inclusion-exclusion is typically used to find the cardinality of a set A contain all combinatorial objects that avoid a substructure S (either that, or the comp …
Douglas S. Stones's user avatar
13 votes
Accepted

Counting colored rook configurations in the cube - when is it even?

This can be phrased as a problem concerning Latin squares. Eg. a "rook set" is equivalent to a Latin square. For example: 123 100 010 001 231 <-> 001 100 010 312 010 001 100 A colou …
Douglas S. Stones's user avatar