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Portable software
Portable software refers to programs that can be stored onto a media (such as USB drives, CDs, external harddisks etc.) and run directly from there on multiple computers. In other words, software that you can move from one computer to another without the need to re-install. There are a lot of sites that provide such [...]
Online judge
Sometime back I came across Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ). A ‘judge’ is a mechanism through which you can verify your programming solutions. The SPOJ contains a huge range of programming problems. You need to code a solution in one of the supported languages (from Unix shell scripting to C to Java to esoteric languages like [...]
Value of Pi
Wikipedia defines Pi or p as “a mathematical constant which represents the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry”. As a kid I used to be interested in the calculation of Pi. The value of Pi, to 100 places of decimal is: 3.1415 9265 3589 7932 3846 2643 3832 7950 2884 [...]
