“We had to control how big a number shows up as we do this guessing and coordination,” said Peng. Peng and Vempala prove that their algorithm can solve any sparse linear system in n 2.332 steps. This ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Warp-Speed Algebra: New Algorithm Does Algebra in a Snap ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 302 No. 1 (January 2010) doi:10.1038 ...

Researchers break speed barrier in solving important class of linear systems Date: October 22, 2010 Source: Carnegie Mellon University Summary: Computer scientists have devised an innovative and ...

“This new algorithm is extremely exciting,” said Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, a mathematician and computer scientist at Cornell University. “It represents the first [major] improvement to ILP solvers in ...

A downside of the Linear Search algorithm is that it is inefficient. For an array of 4,000,000 data items, it would perform an average of 2,000,000 comparisons to find the specified item.