For questions about the limits of a certain feature of a programming language. Note that this site is not for the evaluation mathematical limits without the use of programming.
Questions tagged [limits]
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What are sublinear algorithms?
I have been asked the following question by one of my fellow mates.
Which of the following expressions is not sublinear?
O(log log n)
O(n)
O(logn)
O(root(n))
I have gone through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Sub-linear_time but…
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Practical Limits of ElasticSearch + Cassandra
I am planning on using ElasticSearch to index my Cassandra database. I am wondering if anyone has seen the practical limits of ElasticSearch. Do things get slow in the petabyte range? Also, has anyone has any problems using ElasticSearch to index…
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How would you set a variable to the largest number possible in C?
How would you set a variable to equal infinity (or any guaranteed largest number value) in C?
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Android 3.x+ Java ZipFile Class - Can't read ZipEntries from big files
If I open a big zip file (250MB) via the ZipFile class and try to read the entries. This works fine on 2.x in the emulator and real hardware. If I use the exact some code on my tablet (Asus Transformer running 4.0.3) or the emulator (3.2), I can't…
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What is the easiest way to generate random integers within a range in Swift?
The method I've devised so far is this:
func randRange (lower : Int , upper : Int) -> Int {
let difference = upper - lower
return Int(Float(rand())/Float(RAND_MAX) * Float(difference + 1)) + lower
}
This generates random integers between…
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Resident Set Size (RSS) limit has no effect
The following problem occurs on a machine running Ubuntu 10.04 with the 2.6.32-22-generic kernel: Setting a limit for the Resident Set Size (RSS) of a process does not seem to have any effect. I currently set the limit in Python with the following…
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Rate for operation ChangeResourceRecordSets exceeded
I am trying to delete record set in Route 53 console (web interface), but get this error:
Rate for operation ChangeResourceRecordSets exceeded
I tried deleting the record set via API, but I get the same error. Which limit have I exceeded?
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Where are the limits for Qt types?
Regularly, I could reference limits.h to see what the max is for a certain type, like an int or long.
In Qt, there are types like qlonglong. Is there a header file and/or documentation that can be used in a similar way to manually or…
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Is there a size limit on a text file?
Duplicate of: Is there an upper limit on .txt file size?
What is the limit to how much you can write to a text file? Any help would be appreciated.
Rick
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Relative positioning of geom_text in ggplot2?
I am using geom_text to annotate plots in gglot2 and I want use relative positioning rather than absolute. That is, I want a position of (0.5, 0.5) to be dead center regardless of the x and y axis limits. Is that possible?
Alternatively I could of…
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linux limits.conf not working?
I configured /etc/security/limits.conf like this.
user1 soft core 0
user1 hard core 0
Then, I rebooted the system and logged in as root
then I did this.
su user1
ulimit -c unlimited
then I…
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What is the data type for length property for Java arrays?
I want to find out if length property for Java arrays is an int/long or something else.
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C++ variable types limits
here is a quite simple question(I think), is there a STL library method that provides the limit of a variable type (e.g integer) ? I know these limits differ on different computers but there must be a way to get them through a method, right?
Also,…
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Why is ARG_MAX not defined via limits.h?
On Fedora Core 7, I'm writing some code that relies on ARG_MAX. However, even if I #include , the constant is still not defined. My investigations show that it's present in , but this is supposed to be portable across…
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A limit clarification for the new Firestore
So in the limits section (https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/quotas) of the new Firestore product from Firebase it says:
Maximum write rate to a collection in which documents contain
sequential values in an indexed field: 500 per…
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