Implementing a Queue as a Reference Class
I am working on a simulation for an Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ) algorithm. After trying various options, I concluded that I would need an implementation of a queue to make this problem tractable. R...
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Following up on my recent post about implementing a queue as a reference class, I am going to derive a Priority Queue class. Inheritance The syntax for Reference Class inheritance is quite intuitive....
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Recent Common Ancestors: Simple Model
An interesting paper (Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans, Nature, 431, 562–566, 2004) by Rohde, Olson and Chang concludes with the words: Further work is needed to determine the...
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Using Checksum to Guess Message Length: Not a Good Idea!
A question posed by one of my colleagues: can a checksum be used to guess message length? My immediate response was negative and, as it turns out, a simple simulation supported this knee-jerk reaction....
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