Getting Started

Chapter 8: C Pointers and Arrays

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his may seem about as useful as a bicycle for fish, but you’ll see a good example

of tate machines (oooh, oooh, I can hardly wait), in the

ideal language for solving complex data processing and scientific

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f our study. Take a look at the last half of K&R’s chapter on Pointers and Arrays

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meantime, try to hold this in your head until we get there.

Complex Pointer and Array Algorithms......................................................

C is an
computing problems. Many a computer scien
and publishing the results. Which is good for us, because alm
problem we will come across has already been solved for us. Whether its sorting a
database or doing a really fast Fast Fourier Transform, the algorithm will b
published somewhere convenient. Try googling ‘C FF
if you have lots of time and enjoy solving puzzles, yo
better solution than you can borrow. It’s your call.

I hereby declare furthe
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and you’ll thank me.