How do I find the above without removing the largest element and searching again? Is there a more efficient way to do this? It does not matter if the these elements are duplicates.

class Test { public: SOMETHING DoIt(int a) { float FLOAT = 1.2; int INT = 2; char CHAR = 'a'; switch(a) { case 1: return INT; case 2: return FLOAT; case 3: return CHAR; } } }; int m...

Does anyone know an efficient way to right circular-shift a matrix? Btw, the matrix is binary but a method to solve a non-binary matrix is also fine. Right now, I'm thinking of implementing a circ...

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I'd like to use a different icon for the demo version of my game, and I'm building the demo with a different build config than I do for the full verison, using a preprocessor define to lockout some...