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Wilf** University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395 ## Copyright Notice Copyright 1994 by Herbert S. Wilf. This material may be reproduced for any educational purpose; multiple copies may be made for classes, etc. Charges, if any, for reproduced copies must be just enough to recover reasonable costs of reproduction. Reproduction for commercial purposes is prohibited. This cover page must be included in all distributed copies. --- ## Internet Edition, Summer, 1994 This edition of *Algorithms and Complexity* is available at the web site [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf). It may be taken at no charge by all interested persons. Comments and corrections are welcome and should be sent to [wilf@math.upenn.edu](mailto:wilf@math.upenn.edu). A Second Edition of this book was published in 2003 and can be purchased now. The Second Edition contains solutions to most of the exercises. #################### File: Algorithms%20and%20Complexity%20-%20Herbert%20S.%20Wilf%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: # Algorithms and Complexity **Herbert S. Wilf** University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395 ## Copyright Notice Copyright © 1994 by Herbert S. Wilf. This material may be reproduced for any educational purpose; multiple copies may be made for classes, etc. Charges, if any, for reproduced copies must be just enough to recover reasonable costs of reproduction. Reproduction for commercial purposes is prohibited. This cover page must be included in all distributed copies. --- ## Internet Edition, Summer 1994 This edition of *Algorithms and Complexity* is available at the web site [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf). It may be taken at no charge by all interested persons. Comments and corrections are welcome and should be sent to [wilf@math.upenn.edu](mailto:wilf@math.upenn.edu). A Second Edition of this book was published in 2003 and can be purchased now. The Second Edition contains solutions to most of the exercises. #################### File: Algorithms%20and%20Complexity%20-%20Herbert%20S.%20Wilf%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Chapter 0: What This Book Is About ## 0.1 Background An algorithm is a method for solving a class of problems on a computer. The complexity of an algorithm is the cost, measured in running time, or storage, or whatever units are relevant, of using the algorithm to solve one of those problems. This book is about algorithms and complexity, and so it is about methods for solving problems on computers and the costs (usually the running time) of using those methods. Computing takes time. Some problems take a very long time, others can be done quickly. Some problems seem to take a long time, and then someone discovers a faster way to do them (a "faster algorithm"). The study of the amount of computational effort that is needed in order to perform certain kinds of computations is the study of computational complexity. Naturally, we would expect that a computing problem for which millions of bits of input data are required would probably take longer than another problem that needs only a few items of input. So the time complexity of a calculation is measured by expressing the running time of the calculation as a function of some measure of the amount of data that is needed to describe the problem to the computer. For instance, think about this statement: "I just bought a matrix inversion program, and it can invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in just \( 1.2 n^3 \) minutes." We see here a typical description of the complexity of a certain algorithm. The running time of the program is being given as a function of the size of the input matrix. A faster program for the same job might run in \( 0.8 n^3 \) minutes for an \( n \times n \) matrix. If someone were to make a really important discovery (see section 2.4), then maybe we could actually lower the exponent, instead of merely shaving the multiplicative constant. Thus, a program that would invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in only \( 7.2 n^3 \) minutes would represent a striking improvement of the state of the art. For the purposes of this book, a computation that is guaranteed to take at most \( c n^3 \) time for input of size \( n \) will be thought of as "easy" computation. One that needs at most \( n^{10} \) time is also easy. If a certain calculation on an \( n \times n \) matrix were to require \( 2^n \) minutes, then that would be a "hard" problem. Naturally some of the computations that we are calling "easy" may take a very long time to run, but still, from our present point of view, the important distinction to maintain will be the polynomial time guarantee or lack of it. The general rule is that if the running time is at most a polynomial function of the amount of input data, then the calculation is an easy one; otherwise, it’s hard. Many problems in computer science are known to be easy. To convince someone that a problem is easy, it is enough to describe a fast method for solving that problem. To convince someone that a problem is hard is hard, because you will have to prove to them that it is impossible to find a fast way of doing the calculation. It will not be enough to point to a particular algorithm and to lament its slowness. After all, that algorithm may be slow, but maybe there’s a faster way. Matrix inversion is easy. The familiar Gaussian elimination method can invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in time at most \( O(n^3) \). To give an example of a hard computational problem we have to go far afield. One interesting one is called the "tiling problem." Suppose we are given infinitely many identical floor tiles, each shaped like a regular hexagon. The new can tile the whole plane with them, i.e., we can cover the plane with no empty spaces left over. This can also be done if the tiles are identical rectangles, but not if they are regular hexagons. In Fig. 0.1 we show a tiling of the plane by identical rectangles, and in Fig. 0.2 a tiling by regular hexagons. * See, for instance, Martin Gardner’s article in *Scientific American*, January 1977, pp. 110-121. * R. Berger, "The undecidability of the domino problem," *Memor. Amer. Math. Soc.* 66 (1966), Amer. 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The complexity of an algorithm is the cost, measured in running time, or storage, or whatever units are relevant, of using the algorithm to solve one of those problems. This book is about algorithms and complexity, and so it is about methods for solving problems on computers and the costs (usually the running time) of using those methods. Computing takes time. Some problems take a very long time, others can be done quickly. Some problems seem to take a long time, and then someone discovers a faster way to do them (a ‘faster algorithm’). The study of the amount of computational effort that is needed in order to perform certain kinds of computations is the study of computational complexity. Naturally, we would expect that a computing problem for which millions of bits of input data are required would probably take longer than another problem that needs only a few items of input. So the time complexity of a calculation is measured by expressing the running time of the calculation as a function of some measure of the amount of data that is needed to describe the problem to the computer. For instance, think about this statement: “I just bought a matrix inversion program, and it can invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in just \( 1.2n^3 \) minutes.” We see here a typical description of the complexity of a certain algorithm. The running time of the program is being given as a function of the size of the input matrix. A faster program for the same job might run in \( 0.8n^3 \) minutes for an \( n \times n \) matrix. If someone were to make a really important discovery (see section 2.4), then maybe we could actually lower the exponent, instead of merely shaving the multiplicative constant. Thus, a program that would invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in only \( n^2 \log n \) minutes would represent a striking improvement of the state of the art. For the purposes of this book, a computation that is guaranteed to take at most \( c n^3 \) time for input of size \( n \) will be thought of as 'easy' computation. One that needs at most \( n^{10} \) time is also easy. If a certain calculation on an \( n \times n \) matrix were to require \( 2^n \) minutes, then that would be a 'hard' problem. Naturally some of the computations that we are calling 'easy' may take a very long time to run, but still, from our present point of view the important distinction to maintain will be the polynomial time guarantee or lack of it. The general rule is that if the running time is not a polynomial function of the amount of input data, then the calculation is an easy one; otherwise it’s hard. Many problems in computer science are known to be easy. To convince someone that a problem is easy, it is enough to describe a fast method for solving that problem. To convince someone that a problem is hard is hard, because you will have to prove to them that it is impossible to find a fast way of doing the calculation. It will not be enough to point to a particular algorithm and to lament its slowness. After all, that algorithm may be slow, but maybe there’s a faster way. Matrix inversion is easy. The familiar Gaussian elimination method can invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in time of at most \( O(n^3) \). To give an example of a hard computational problem we have to go far afield. One interesting one is called the 'tiling problem'. Suppose we are given infinitely many identical floor tiles, each shaped like a regular hexagon. Then we can tile the whole plane with them, i.e., we can cover the plane with no empty spaces left over. This can also be done if the tiles are identical rectangles, but not if they are regular hexagons. In Fig. 0.1 we show a tiling of the plane by identical rectangles, and in Fig. 0.2 is a tiling by regular hexagons. --- 1. See, for instance, Martin Gardner’s article in *Scientific American*, January 1977, pp. 110-121. 2. R. Berger, “The undecidability of the domino problem,” *Amer. Math. Soc.* 66 (1966), Amer. Image Analysis: ## Analysis of the Attached Visual Content ### 1. Localization and Attribution - **Image**: There is only one image present on the page. ### 2. Scene and Activity Analysis - **Scene Description**: The entire scene appears to be a page from a book or document. - **Activity**: There is no specific activity depicted. The main focus is on the textual content provided on this page. ### 4. Text Analysis - **Extracted Text**: - **Title**: "Chapter 0: What This Book Is About" - **Section**: "0.1 Background" - **Content**: The text describes algorithms, computational complexity, and introduces the purpose and scope of the book. 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For each integer \(m = 2, 3, \ldots, \sqrt{n}\)| we ask if \(m\) divides (evenly into) \(n\). If all of the answers are ‘No,’ then we declare \( n \) to be a prime number, else it is composite. First, we look at the computational complexity of this algorithm. That means that we are going to find out how much work is involved in doing the test. For a given integer \( n \) the work that we have to do can be measured in units of divisions of a whole number by another whole number. In those units, we obviously will do about \(\sqrt{n}\) units of work. It seems as though this is a tractable problem, because, after all, \(\sqrt{n}\) is of polynomial growth in \( n \). For instance, we do less than \( n \) units of work, and that’s certainly a polynomial in \( n \), isn’t it? So, according to our definition of fast and slow algorithms, the distinction was made on the basis of polynomial vs. faster-than-polynomial growth of the work done with the problem size, and therefore this problem must be easy. Right? Well, no not really. References to the distinction between fast and slow methods will show that we have to measure the amount of work done as a function of the number of bits of input to the problem. In this example, \( n \) is not the number of bits of input. For instance, if \( n = 59 \), we don’t need 59 bits to describe it, but only 6. In general, the number of binary digits in the bit string of an integer \( n \) is close to \(\log_2 n\). So in the problem of this example, testing the primality of a given integer \( n \), the length of the input bit string \( B \) is about \(\log_2n\). Seen in this light, the calculation suddenly seems very long. A string consisting of mere \(\log_2 n\) 0’s and 1’s has caused our mighty computer to do about \(\sqrt{n}\) units of work. If we express the amount of work done as a function of \( B \), we find that the complexity of this calculation is approximately \(2^{B/2}\), and that grows much faster than any polynomial function of \( B \). Therefore, the method that we have just discussed for testing the primality of a given integer is slow. See Chapter 4 for further discussions of this problem. At the present time no one has found a fast way to test for primality, nor has anyone proved that there isn’t a fast way. Primality testing belongs to the (well-populated) class of seemingly, but not provably, intractable problems. In this book we will deal with some easy problems and some seemingly hard ones. It’s the ‘seemingly’ that makes things very interesting. 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The text touches upon polynomial-time guarantees, worst-case and average-case bounds, and the conceptual distinction between fast and slow algorithms. #################### File: Algorithms%20and%20Complexity%20-%20Herbert%20S.%20Wilf%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: So in some problems whose input bit strings has \( B \) bits the algorithm might operate in time \( 6B \) and on others it might need, say, \( 100 \log B \) time units, and for still other problem instances of length \( B \) the algorithm might need \( 5B^2 \) time units to get the job done. Well then, what would the warranty card say? I would have to pick out the worst possibility, otherwise the guarantee wouldn’t be valid. It would assure a user that if the input problem instance can be described by \( B \) bits, then an answer will appear after at most \( 5B^2 \) time units. Hence a performance guarantee is equivalent to an estimation of the worst possible scenario: the longest possible calculation that might ensue if \( B \) was the input to the program. Worst-case bounds are the most common kind, but there are other kinds of bounds for running time. We might give an average case bound instead (see section 5.7). That wouldn’t guarantee performance to worse than \( s \)-and-\( s \); it would state that if the performance is averaged over all possible input bit strings of \( B \) bits, then the average amount of computing time will be \( s \)-and-\( s \) (as a function of \( B \)). Now let’s talk about the difference between easy and hard computational problems and between fast and slow algorithms. A warranty that would not guarantee 'fast' performance would contain some function of \( B \) that grows faster than any polynomial, like \( e^B \), for instance, or like \( x^{\sqrt{n}} \), etc. It is the polynomial time \( t \), not necessarily polynomial time guarantee that makes the difference between the easy and the hard classes of problems, or between the fast and the slow algorithms. It is highly desirable to work with algorithms such that we can give a performance guarantee for running time that is not a polynomial function of the number of bits of input. An algorithm is slow if, whatever polynomial \( P \) we think of, there exists arbitrarily large values of \( B \), input data strings of \( B \) bits, that cause the algorithm to do more than \( P(B) \) units of work. A computational problem is **intractable** if it can be proved that there is no fast algorithm for it. ### Example 3 Here is a familiar computational problem and a method, or algorithm, for solving it. Let’s see if the method has a polynomial time guarantee or not. The problem is this. Let \( n \) be a given integer. We want to find out if \( n \) is prime. The method that we choose is the following. For each integer \( n = 2, 3, \ldots, \sqrt{n} \) we ask if \( n \) divides (evenly) into \( n \). If all the answers are 'No', then we declare \( n \) to be a prime number; else it is composite. Now if we look at the computational complexity of this algorithm, there’s much to say about how much work is involved in doing the test. For a given integer \( n \) that we have to do can be measured in units of divisions of a whole number by another whole number. In those units, we obviously will do about \( \sqrt{n} \) units of work. It seems as though this is a tractable problem, because, after all, \( \sqrt{n} \) is of polynomial growth in \( n \). For instance, we do less than \( n \) units of work, and that’s certainly a polynomial in \( n \), isn’t it? So, according to our definition of fast and slow algorithms, this distinction was made on the basis of polynomial vs. faster-than-polynomial growth of the work done with the problem size, and therefore this problem must be easy. Right? Well, not really. Reference to the distinction between fast and slow methods will show that we have to measure the amount of work done as a function of the number of bits of input to the problem. In this example, \( n \) is not the number of bits of input. For instance, if \( n = 59 \), we don’t need 59 bits to describe it, but only 6. In general, the number of binary digits in the bit string of an integer \( n \) is close to \( \log_2 n \). So, in the problem of this example, testing the primality of a given integer \( n \), the length of the input bit string \( B \) is about \( 10 \log_2 n \). Seen in this light, the calculation suddenly seems very long, a string consisting of mere log \( 0’s \) and 1’s has caused our mighty computer to do about \( \sqrt{n} \) units of work. If we express the amount of work done as a function of \( B \), we find that complexity of this calculation is approximately \( 2^{B/2} \), and that grows much faster than any polynomial function of \( B \). Therefore, the method that we have just discussed for testing the primality of a given integer is slow. See Chapter 6 for further discussion of this problem. At the present time no one has found a fast way to test for primality, nor has anyone proved that there isn’t a fast way. Primality testing belongs to the (well-)polynomial class of seeming, but not provably, intractable problems. In this book we will deal with some easy problems and some seemingly hard ones. It’s the ‘seemingly’ that makes things very interesting. These are problems for which no one has found a fast computer algorithm. 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The text is academic and technical, intended for readers with an understanding of computational theory. #################### File: Algorithms%20and%20Complexity%20-%20Herbert%20S.%20Wilf%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 50 Context: # Chapter 2: Recursive Algorithms The last ‘∼’ follows from the evaluation \( \sum_j 2^j = 2 \) that we discussed in section 1.3. To summarize the developments so far, then, we have found out that the chromatic polynomial of a graph can be computed recursively by an algorithm whose cost is \( O(2^E) \) for graphs of \( E \) edges. This is exponential cost, and such computations are prohibitively expensive except for graphs of very modest numbers of edges. Of course the mere fact that our provided time estimate is \( O(2^E) \) doesn’t necessarily mean that the algorithm can be that slow, because maybe our complexity analysis wasn’t as sharp as it might have been. However, consider the graph \( G(S, t) \) that consists of \( s \) disjoint edges and \( t \) isolated vertices, for a total of \( 2s + t \) vertices altogether. If we choose an edge \( (i,j) \) and delete it, we get \( G(S - 1, t + 1) \). Each of these two new graphs has \( s - 1 \) edges. We might imagine arranging the computation so that the extra isolated vertices will be ‘free’, i.e., will not cost any additional labor. Then the work that we do on \( G(S, t) \) will depend only on \( s \), and will be twice as much as the work we do on \( G(S - 1, t) \). Therefore \( G(S, t) \) will cost at least \( 2^s \) operations, and our complexity estimate wasn’t a mirage; there really are graphs that make the algorithm do an amount \( 2^{|G|} \) of work. Considering the above remarks it may be surprising that there is a slightly different approach to the complexity analysis that leads to a time bound (for the same algorithm) that is a bit tighter than \( O(2^E) \). In many cases (the work of the complexity analysis is never finished!). Let’s look at the algorithm chromody in another way. For a graph \( G \) we can define a number \( \gamma(G) = |V(G)| - |E(G)| \), which is rather an odd kind of thing to define, but it has a nice property with respect to this algorithm, namely that whatever \( G \) we begin with, we will find that \[ \gamma(G - \{e\}) = \gamma(G) - 1; \quad \gamma(G/\{e\}) \leq \gamma(G) - 2 \] Indeed, if we delete the edge \( e \) then \( \gamma \) must drop by 1, and if we collapse the graph on the edge \( e \) then we will have lost one vertex and at least one edge, so we will drop by at least 2. Hence, if \( h(n) \) denotes the maximum amount of labor that chromody does on any graph \( G \) with \[ |V(G)| + |E(G)| \leq n \] then we claim that \[ h(n) \leq h(n - 1) + h(n - 2) \quad (2.3.10) \] Indeed, if \( G \) is a graph for which (2.3.9) holds, then if \( G \) has any edges at all we can do the delete-and-identify step to prove that the labor involved in computing the chromatic polynomial of \( G \) is at most the quantity on the right side of (2.3.10). Else, if \( G \) has no edges then the labor is 1 unit, which is again at most equal to the right side of (2.3.10), so the result (2.3.10) follows. With the initial conditions \( h(0) = h(1) = 1 \) the solution of the recurrent inequality (2.3.10) is obviously the relation \( h(n) \leq F_n \), where \( F_n \) is the Fibonacci number. We have thereby proved that the time complexity of the algorithm chromody is \[ O(F_{|V(G)|+|E(G)|}) = O\left( \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2} \right)^{|V(G)| + |E(G)|} = O(1.62^{|V(G)| + |E(G)|}) \] This analysis does not, of course, contradict the earlier estimate, but complements it. What we have shown is that the labor involved is always \[ O\left( \min(2^{|E|}, 1.62^{|V(G)| + |E(G)|}) \right) \] On a graph with ‘few’ edges relative to its number of vertices (how few?) the first quantity in the parentheses in (2.3.12) will dominate the smaller one, whereas if \( G \) has more edges, then the second term is the smaller one. In either case the overall judgment about the speed of the algorithm (it’s slow!) remains. Image Analysis: Here is the detailed analysis based on the aspects provided: ### 1. Localization and Attribution: - **Image 1**: The entire page of the document. ### 2. Object Detection and Classification: - The document contains text and mathematical notations. 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