Calling on the neighbours

Neighbours on a Grid

We address the problem of a succinct static data structure representing points on anM M grid (M = 2m where m is size of a word) that permits to answer the question of finding the closest point to a query point under the L1 or L1 norm in constant time. Our data structure takes essentially minimum space. These results are extended to d dimensions underL1 .

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Learning from the neighbours.

Earlier this summer a middle-aged man with a history of degenerative disk disease in his neck came to see me after an episode of acute low back pain following an active weekend of yard work at his cottage. He had no red-flag symptoms, but he had managed to convince the resident who had seen him 10 days earlier to send him for lumbar x-ray scans and some “routine” blood tests. Not surprisingly, ...

The calling.

I grew up in Africa, the younger of two sons of Indian parents who taught college physics. Around the time that my brother’s precocious ability with numbers was revealing itself, I discovered that I had no head for math — or for any other subject in the school curriculum. Middle-class Indian parents worshipped the professions, and only three existed for them: medicine, engineering, and law. Whe...

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