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What Is The mt19937 Random Generator In Modern C++?

Random numbers are one of the most important parts of today’s modern programming technologies. They are used in mathematics, physics, in many engineering fields, and in programming such as generating random data for testing, random maps in levels, random trees on a planet – the list is endless. Since C++11, mt19937 (std::mt19937) is implemented as […]

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How To Use void_t Alias Template in C++ 17?

In C++ 17, there is a very useful alias template for metaprogramming that can be used to simplify use of SFINAE. The void_t is a meta-function that is used to map any types ( or types) to type void. In this post, we explain what is void_t, how you can use it in different examples. What is […]

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How To Use std::invoke In C++ 17?

There is a new library feature in the C++17 standard, it is std::invoke which is a useful feature to uniformly invoke callable entities. In this post, we explain what std::invoke is and how we can use it in examples. First, let’s remind ourselves about what is a callable object and what is a functor in […]

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Learn C++ Optimization With A Genetic Algorithms Example

Solving C++ optimization problems are one of the areas of all quantitative disciplines from social science, economics to engineering fields such as computer science. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a kind of machine learning process that is used to generate high-quality solutions to optimization and search problems by relying on biologically inspired operators such as mutation, crossover, and selection. […]

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What Are The Elementary String Conversions That Come With C++ 17?

In addition to many beneficial features of C++ 17, there are elementary string conversions introduced in that specification. The std::to_chars() and std::from_chars() are defined in header to do conversions between numeric values to strings or strings to numeric values without considering locale-specific conversions. In this post, we explain the std::to_chars() and std::from_chars() that come with C++17. […]

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What Is The Class Template Variant (std::variant) in C++ 17?

In C++ Builder 12, and modern C++ the std::variant is one of the powerful features that comes with C++17. The std::variant is a discriminated union that we can work with multiple data types. It represents a type-safe union and holds one of its types in definition. What is the class template std::variant in C++ 17? […]

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What Is The New std::sample Algorithm In C++ 17?

The C++ 17 standard bring us a lot of useful methods, templates and algorithms. One of the great algorithms is std::sample defined in the header that samples at most n elements uniformly from a given range. In this post, we explain the std::sample algorithm and how we can use it with an mt19937 random generator. What is […]

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What Is The New Optional Class Template In C++ 17?

The C++17 standard came with a lot of great features and std::optional was one of the main features of today’s modern C++. std::optional is a class template that is defined in the header and represents either a T value or no value. In this post, we explain, what is optional in modern C++ and how we can […]

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What Is basic_string_view And string_view In Modern C++

C++17 had enormous changes in C++ features. One of them was basic_string_view (std::basic_string_view) which is a constant string container that can be used for multiple string declarations. The basic_string_view is a modern way of read-only text definition. It can be used by iterators and other methods of the basic_string_view class. In this post, we explain basic_string_view and […]

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