In this article I look at what's known as Binary Search algorithm and provide its advanced implementation in PHP programming language. This is the second part of the series on the algorithm. In the first part (main/index/binary-search-algorithm-implementation-in-php) I ...

In this article I take a closer look at a very efficient search algorithm called Binary Search. I implement it in PHP programming language and provide example usage for searches done on arrays of common data. This article is the first part of the two. In the second part I give a ...

Suppose that you have a square (N x N) grid and want to determine number of unique paths, which will take you from the top left corner in the grid to the bottom right one of if. You are allowed to move by one point at at time, and to the right or to the bottom only. For example, ...

Suppose, that you were born on Monday, January 1, and want to know how many Mondays happened to fall on the same day of any month of the year over, lets say, the last 100 years. It is a silly problem, but also one which points to some problems and inaccuracies ensuing from ...