Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

Khachiyan, and recently Karmarkar, gave polynomial algorithms to solve the linear programming problem. These algorithms have a small theoretical drawback; namely, the number of arithmetic steps ...

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.