A technical question about Linux

[dashielljt]

-- ----- no, because you're not stupid.  You have to be into software
development to know about them or theoretical mathematics.  Let's start by
saying that for purposes of software development that a matrix is
synonymous with a table and both are synonymous with array.  These are
usually areas of memory reserved for work Microsoft;  a program is to do.
Applications that use arrays might be games that play cards with humans on
computers.  cribbage has at least two arrays one of them used for the deck
of cards and another used for the board.  The deck array keeps track of
what cards have been drawn and the board array tracks positions of pegs on
the board as moves are made so score can be computed accurately.  In
windows, several programs use arrays or matrices.  Now, a sparse matrix is
an optimized matrix that only has the exact number of positions in it or
tupples that's needed to do its work.  Positions that are always filled
with garbage are left out and a further optimization is that search rules
are used to compute values without use of the matrix whenever possible.
These rules ask questions like is the position in matrix now row 3 column
2 and if there's always a zero in that position, the rule says if yes
state answer as zero without even searching the matrix.  A simplistic
example would be an array that showed what month it was depending on the
day number in a year.  The way windows handles that array is 12 times 31
equals 382 tupples.  Now we all know a year has at most 366 days in it.
So a sparse array would have 1 times 366 tupples in it.  To optimize this
further there would be two rules to check for December.  One of those
would be if day number is greater than 334 it's december.  This rule is
true whether it's a leap year or not and one would want to state that rule
more correctly as if day number is less than or equal to 366 and day
number is greater than 334 then it's december.  One of the reasons windows
crashes so frequently is the lack of these sparse matrices.  When doing
sparse matrices, you check your programmed rules first, and if none of the
conditions are satisfied in those programmed rules then as a last resort
you do a table or matrix look up.mismanagement, and stupidity are all
weapons of mass destruction.