Addition chains with multiplicative cost
β Scribed by R.L. Graham; A.C.-C. Yao; F.-F. Yao
- Book ID
- 103059228
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
If each step in an addition cl& is assigned a cos. equal to the product of the numbers at that step, "binary" addition chains are shown to mirdnke total cost.
For a positive integer it, b:y a chain to n we mean a sequence C= ((a,, w, (a29 Q, -* * 3 (4, b,)) wuh ?re ak and bk are pC&iVe in@erS
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract In a large number of situations, activities in health care have to be measured in terms of outcome and cost. However, the cases where outcome is fully captured by a single measure are rather few, so that one uses some index for outcome, computed by weighing together several outcome meas