This assignment must uploaded to moodle by December 4, 2018. This assignment
should be typed.
This assignment asks you to write a short (1 - 2 page) report on how a topic from
the course can be applicable to computer science. You are encourage to choose any
topic of interest to you within discrete mathematics and computer science (broadly
interpreted). Below is a non-exhaustive list of potential topics along with some key
words to help you chose a topic.
• Big-O is used in analysis of algorithms where “time complexity” is a helpful
keyword.
• Strings are used in many data structures and algorithms. Some keywords
include: “string searching”, “string matching”, “formal languages”, ...
• Relations show up in “relational databases” like SQL.
• Graphs and trees are used to model many things; “networks” are often
encoded as graphs or directed graphs.
• Recursion shows up in “dynamic programming” and many algorithms.
• Sets are an important notion. One option for the assignment would be
to figure out ways of representing sets and performing set operations on a
computer.
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