Monthly Archives: March 2020

Data structure challenge: finding the rightmost empty slot

Suppose we have a sequence of slots indexed from 1 to . Each slot can be either empty or full, and all start out empty. We want to repeatedly do the following operation: Given an index , find the rightmost … Continue reading

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Competitive Programming in Haskell: modular arithmetic, part 2

In my last post I wrote about modular exponentiation and egcd. In this post, I consider the problem of solving modular equivalences, building on code from the previous post. Solving linear congruences A linear congruence is a modular equivalence of … Continue reading

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