IDEA is a series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions by Sándor P. Fekete, Sebastian Morr, and Sebastian Stiller. They were originally created for Sándor's algorithms and datastructures lecture at TU Braunschweig, but we hope they will be useful in all sorts of context. We publish them here so that they can be used by teachers, students, and curious people alike.
The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a format for storing compressed raster graphics. The compression engine is based on the Deflate method [RFC1951], designed by PKWare and originally used in PKZIP.
a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem). It can be useful for cutting stocks in trucks and factories.
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