# Programming

## Binary Search Trees

Let us implement in julia 0.6.0 a binary search tree to store integers. Each node is either of type Nil or of type bst, as declared below. Type Nil is used a null pointer. We use type union MayBe to hold either a Nil() or a bst. At the start the tree is empty so it is initialized to Nil(). Removing the type declaration from the data element should be sufficient to store datatypes for which a comparator is implemented.

Numbers are all In this post, we examine two examples set out in the classic paper by Turing. The first problem is to report the $n^{th}$ binary digit of 1⁄3. The second problem is to report the $n^{th}$ binary digit of $\sqrt{2}$. The 1936 paper On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproble describes two machines to perform the tasks. In this post, we give in Haskell two programs for the same.

In this post, we implement in Haskell, the augmenting path method to find a maximum matching in a bipartite graph. We use function composition and recursion mostly. We obtain a simple implementation of an algorithm to compute maximum matching in a bipartite graph. As a side affect of this exercise, you should know about algorithms to compute terminal objects, and fix points in a category. Only a basic familiarity with Haskell is assumed here.