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Exceptional books on real world applications of graph theory.

What are some exceptional graph theory books geared explicitly towards real-world applications? I would be interested in both general books on the subject (essentially surveys of applied graph ...
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Blackjack 21 training

A friend of mine has to do An essay on this and I thought this was a great place to ask. In the movie: the main character is seen reading a lot of books which he calls simple arithmetic instead of ...
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Combinations for Screen lock For iPhone / Android

I was wondering if there was a general for formula to calculate the combination of the password lock for the current smart phones The following is the condition We must use four nodes or more to ...
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Applications of the number of spanning trees in graphs

Let $G$ be a simple graph and denote by $\tau(G)$ the number of spanning trees of $G$. There are many results related to $\tau(G)$ for certain types of graphs. For example one of the prettiest (to ...
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How many cpus needed to check a 100 million digit prime number efficiently?

If I had access to potentially large number of CPUs and wanted to quickly check 100 million digit numbers for primality using a map-reduce architecture, how many CPUs would be necessary? Each of the ...
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Applications of the Fibonacci sequence

The Fibonacci sequence is very well known, and is often explained with a story about how many rabbits there are after $n$ generations if they each produce a new pair every generation. Is there any ...