How to get the formatted string of printf?
std::string formatting like sprintf
Calculation of the avalanche effect coefficient Given a  matrix/dependence matrix for a hash function,how do I calculate the avalanche coefficient for it. I want to calculate a single parameter(value) which represents the amount of avalanche effect for the given hash function.  I have thought of computing mean all over the matrix but am not sure that's the correct thing to do.  The  talks about the avalanche coefficient but they haven't mentioned the way they calculate it. How is light affected by gravity? How to compute $k$'th roots $\!\bmod n$? I have the following equation: $$ n \equiv M^k\mod(b) $$ where n, a, b are integers, and M is unknown. How do I solve this equation to find the M value? Those a and b are public keys of the RSA algorithm and n is the result of encryption. I need to find the encrypted message. I don't know how to prove this example. Let $y(t):\mathbb{R}^+\to \mathbb{R}$ be a nonincreasing function. Assume that there is a constant $A&gt;0$ such that \begin{equation} \int_{s}^{+\infty}y(t)dt \leq Ay(s), \quad 0\leq s&lt;+\infty \end{equation} Then $y(t)\leq y(0)e^{1-\frac{t}{A}}$, for all $t&gt;0$. Electric circuits in TeX, LaTeX, and Friends How to make partitions mount at startup? How do you make HDDs and partitions mount at startup on Ubuntu?  I always keep my media and data files on separate partitions - one 2tb HDD and a 400 odd gig partition.  I have been trying to swap the default folder location for the home directory to my other drives.  It works when I change the /home/user_name/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to the directories I want, but only until I reboot the system. I am only assuming that the drives not mounting is the problem with it, but it would be helpful either way.  If any one knows another reason for why the directories change back to default each time that would be good also. Best solution to protect PHP code without encryption First of all, I'm not looking for miracle... I know how PHP works and that there's not really way to hide my code from the clients without using encryption. But that comes with the cost of an extension to be installed on the running server.  I'm looking for something different though... I'm not looking to encrypt my code or even obfuscate it. There are many PHP scripts without encrypted/obfuscated code but they are commercial applications. For instance, vBulletin and/or IP.Board forum applications.  I just want to know what approach do these guys use for their applications...  I'm also open to any other suggestions.  Please note that I'm a single person and not working for a company. My product is also very specific, it won't sell that much. I just want you guys to know that I can't afford to consult a legal professional either to sue someone or prepare a commercial license. I'm just looking for a simple way to protect my simple product, if it's indeed possible, somehow... Which Stack Exchange website for machine learning and computational algorithms? I'm currently working on many machine learning and computational algorithms, such as Singular Value Decomposition, Support Vector Machines, and others.  I'd like to ask questions about these topics, but I don't know which Stack Exchange website to use to post my questions.   Should I use ? Should I use ? Should I use ? Should I use ?   How do I tell?  What criteria do I use? With $x+y\ge z$ $(x,y,z\ge0)$, prove that: $$\frac{x}{1+x}+\frac{y}{1+y}\ge\frac{z}{1+z}$$  I'm aware that using analytic view this is easy since $f(x)=\frac{x}{1+x}$ is concave in $[0,\infty)$. However I want to prove it using merely algebraic techniques. Is that possible? Cannot set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile.d Money transfer from India to USA My daughter is a US Citizen. We (parents)are also planning to permanently settle in US. We will go their as Permanent Resident,as per US Law. We have a house here in India worth Rs.2 Crores.  We want to sell it and take money with us. We have ordinary savings Bank account here in India.  My US Citizen Daughter is a Income Tax payer.  Now your advises are required as under:   What are the routes to take money from India to US and our tax liabilities Can I gift this whole amount to my US Citizen Daughter or what is the maximum limit of Gift amount.  What will be the tax liability on me and on my Daughter in case of Gift   Whether I have to show it in my Income Tax Return or in my Daughter's Tax Return. What US Income Tax Laws says. What will be the procedure to send money as Gift to my Daughter. Will the money will go directly from my Bank Act.to my Daughter's Bank Account. Will there will be wire transfer from bank to bank Can I send money through other money sender Certified Companies also.    Please advise. If there is something more on the subject to make me understand, please advise. Thanks, Stack Exchange sites need a universal clock that is visible! Since the Stack Exchange sites run on one clock, and a clock that is not common to most of us (such as those of us in the US), can we display a clock with the site time (UTC) displayed somewhere on every page, such as at the bottom with the other text?  That way we are more aware of when the days turn over, and ecetera...  close votes, delete votes, flags, and normal votes would also benefit from this as well (thanks @Grace Note!)...    What do you guys think? yea or nay? thoughts? Techniques for modeling a network of blood vessels If you've ever seen anything like Body Worlds or the Bodies: The Exhibition you'll know how they dissect individual organ systems and put them on display with a technique known as . For instance, plastic can be pumped through the circulatory system such that when it hardens, acid can be used to dissolve the rest leaving the underlying network of blood vessels underneath.    I'm looking forward to modeling something as intricate as this, but my first attempts have failed. The initial idea was to generate a tree structure with the Sapling Tree add-on. Then I could do a Boolean modifier with my model, and touch up the end points individually by extruding to follow the contours of the model's surface. However, the Boolean modifier fails in this example.  Do I have to code this procedurally with a Python script or is there some other method I should try first? has the following ability:     Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.   I had a number of creatures on the battlefield, including Marchesa herself, with one or more +1/+1 counters on them when  was played, destroying each creature on the board.  When Marchesa and several other creatures would be killed simultaneously,   Does Marchesa's ability trigger for herself? Does Marchesa's ability trigger for the other creatures under my control with +1/+1 counters?   In attempting to resolve the issue, we tried to look things up, leading to , which cites Rule 603.6d as proving that Marchesa's ability should trigger both for herself and for each other creature with +1/+1 counters.  Unfortunately, none of us could actually understand Rule 603.6d, aside from this example:     Two creatures are on the battlefield along with an artifact that has the ability Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life. Someone plays a spell that destroys all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. The artifacts ability triggers twice, even though the artifact goes to its owners graveyard at the same time as the creatures.   The example certainly seems analogous to me, but without understanding the actual rule, rather than just the example, we weren't too sure.  A complete answer has to not only answer the question, but back up that answer with citation and explanation of the official rules on the matter. I'm looking to find records in a table that match a specific number that the user enters.  So, the user may enter 12345, but this could be 123zz4-5 in the database. I imagine something like this would work, if PHP functions worked in MySQL. SELECT * FROM foo WHERE preg_replace(&quot;/[^0-9]/&quot;,&quot;&quot;,bar) = '12345'  What's the equivalent function or way to do this with just MySQL? Speed is not important. How can I play mp3 files or videos? Upon the risk of being down voted as no MWE is present, but at the moment just trying to get some pointers. I updated my MiKTeX installation to the newest available version at the moment (MiKTeX-pdfTeX 4.1 (MiKTeX 20.12)) and now I get an error while building my documentation: Appendix D. (../html/examples/group/latex/refman_doc.tex (../html/examples/group/latex//gro up__group1.tex) [243] ! I can't write on file `../html/examples/group/latex//group__group2.aux'. \@include ...mmediate \openout \@partaux &quot;#1.aux&quot;                                                   \immediate \write \@partau... l.3 \include{group__group2}  Please type another output file name ! Emergency stop. \@include ...mmediate \openout \@partaux &quot;#1.aux&quot;                                                   \immediate \write \@partau... l.3 \include{group__group2}  *** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode)  some small background:  Started normally with pdflatex doxygen_manual.tex in here is the statement: \subinputfrom{../html/examples/group/latex/}{refman_doc} and in this file again: \include{group__group2} as far as I know the disk is not full and the protections of the files and directories are OK as well  It looks like that now an attempt is made to write to the directory ../html/examples/group/latex/ whilst in the past the file was written to the current directory. I already tried -shell-escape and -enable-write18 (as well as --shell-escape and --enable-write18) but to no avail.  Any known changes in respect to writing the aux file? Any hints  edit I asked another question () with the details and MWE but that was closed with the reason that it was a duplicate of this one ... So I'm adding the information now here: In the question  asked about the problems I encountered due to an update of my MiKTeX distribution, but didn't take the time (at that moment) to create a MWE, so it didn't attract much response. I have the directory structure:  main  manual.tex   group  group__group2.tex refman_doc.tex    manual.tex \documentclass{book} \usepackage{import} \usepackage{hyperref}  \begin{document} \subinputfrom{../group}{refman_doc} \end{document}  group__group2.tex \hypertarget{group__group2}{}{The Second Group}  refman_doc.tex {Module Documentation} \include{group__group2}  When running in the directory main the command pdflatex manual.tex I get the error: ... (../group/../group/refman_doc.tex [1{C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdf tex/config/pdftex.map}] ! I can't write on file `../group//group__group2.aux'. \@include ...mmediate \openout \@partaux &quot;#1.aux&quot;                                                   \immediate \write \@partau... l.2 \include{group__group2}  Please type another output file name:  but in a non interactive mode (the usual way to run. i.e. with \batchmode) one doesn't get an opportunity to specify the file and the generation crashes. As written in the original question adding options like -shell-escape and / or -enable-write18 didn't help.  Is there a solution for this problem?  edit 2 I did some further test. I replaced the \subinputfrom with an \input statement, although this worked for the limited example above it didn't work for my larger codebase as here (again just a limited view) we have in the refman_doc.tex {Module Documentation} \input{group__group1} \include{group__group2}  with the contents of group_group1.tex similar to group__group2.tex and the file is also parallel to group__group2.tex. This results in the error: (manual.out) (manual.out) (../group/refman_doc.tex  ! LaTeX Error: File `group__group1.tex' not found.  Type X to quit or &lt;RETURN&gt; to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: tex)  Enter file name: ! Emergency stop. &lt;read *&gt;  l.2 \input{group__group1}  !  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! For Christmas my kiddo got the D&amp;D Starter Set and we've been going though it and the full rules we downloaded online. I'm having a hard time figuring out how the example listed in the rules gets to a final value of 14.  The example is a level 1 character with wisdom of 15 and a proficiency in perception.  I understand that you start with  10 (base) + 2 (character level) + 2 (wisdom 15) which gets you to 14 but then how does the "proficiency in perception" help or factor in?   What gets more confusing is on one of the pre-generated character sheets has a level 1 character with wisdom of 10 but a passive perception value of 10. If I follow the math from above shouldn't it be 10 (base) + 2 (char lev 1) + 0 (wisdom 10 = 0 bonus) for a final score of 12?  How to calculate passive perception? Generating ordered combination of numbers I am travelling to Budapest and therefore have a Schengen Visa. I hold an Indian passport and a valid US visa. I'm travelling from Chicago-Heathrow-Budapest and returning by Budapest-Dublin-Chicago.  Would I need a transit visa for UK/Ireland?  UPDATE  Hoping this will help someone someday.   I was not allowed to board my return flight (BUD-DUB-ORD) because I do not hold an overnight Irish Transit Visa. They said I could have transited happily if the connecting flight was in the same day, but because I would have to originally land at 10 PM and catch the connecting flight next morning at 10 AM, I needed a transit visa. Well, I thought it was BS, but couldn't help comply with the rules. I booked another last minute ticket and flew via Warsaw via LOT.