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In computer science, the two-way string-matching algorithm is a string-searching algorithm, discovered by Maxime Crochemore and Dominique Perrin in 1991. [1] It takes a pattern of size m, called a “needle”, preprocesses it in linear time O(m), producing information that can then be used to search for the needle in any “haystack” string, taking only linear time O(n) with n being the ...
If you're familiar with the "Shell Game," the classic game that sees an object being placed under a cup or shell, which challenges you to remember which shell the object is under, you'll instantly ...
Occasionally, the team, usually Savage and Hyneman, holds a friendly competition between themselves to see which of them can devise a more successful solution to recreating the results. This is most common with myths involving building an object that can accomplish a goal. For example, rapidly cooling a beer, or finding a needle in a haystack.
Esperanto – je la tago de Sankta Neniamo ("on Saint Never's Day") — a loan-translation from German (see below). Finnish – sitten kun lehmät lentävät - when the cows fly. Also jos lehmällä olisi siivet, se lentäisi (if cow had wings, it would fly), implying futile speculations.
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A California man suspected of raping and killing a 79-year-old woman more than three decades ago was identified Tuesday after authorities examined fingernail
I just wanted to point that this idiom is not unique to English. I live in Israel and in Modern Hebrew there is the idiom מחט בערמת שחת (Read: Mahat Be'Aremat Shahat) which literally means needle in a haystack and also has the same meaning. NegativeIQ 06:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC) literally the same idiom is used in dutch too.
A rarely seen albino Risso’s dolphin swam alongside a pod of 30 to 50 companions off the coast of Dana Point, California, on May 15.Footage posted by Dana Wharf Sportfishing and Whale Watching ...