The Aho of AWK fame I presume?
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Roger Hui <rogerhui.can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Probably not. It's not related to the problem of finding the minimum that > I know of. It's the general problem of how you avoid initializing a large > but sparse array. Recently, I did use the idea in a case of x i. y (you > know, the problem I've been working on for 30 years :-). > > Anyway, here it is: In the book *The Design and Analysis of Computer > Algorithms*, by Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 1974, Exercise > 2.12: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm