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[edit source]Internet Service System
[edit source]I’m planning to buy an internet service system in UK. What would you suggest?
Requirement is, an Internet Modem Dongle (with or without a simcard in or with it), ‘line rental’ or ‘pay as you go’ which ever provides unlimited ‘GB’ or ‘TB’ daily, weekly and or monthly. What’s the cheapest available; currently?
Note: I would be constantly relocating accommodation places, whatever you guys think is best, please suggest.
116.58.204.130 (talk) 16:35, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- If you are regularly on the move, then any of these... or this if you need 50GB per month should give you internet access in about 95% of the UK, but they have monthly gigabyte limits. In some areas, free WiFi is available in many locations. Unlimited terabytes are rare and very expensive. Dbfirs 21:31, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- Point noted of Wifi. My question is, I'll be on the move, therefore I won't have a fixed address, I won't be able to get a contract. Isn't there no good deal on the pay as you go? 116.58.201.21 (talk) 16:16, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
- You don't need a fixed address for a dongle, but you might if you are buying a phone on credit. PAYG deals tend to be more expensive per GB of data, but they are available in various forms. If you already have a mobile phone then here is 12GB for £40, valid for a year. The dongle version is slightly more. this website has some advice. Dbfirs 20:11, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
- Point noted of Wifi. My question is, I'll be on the move, therefore I won't have a fixed address, I won't be able to get a contract. Isn't there no good deal on the pay as you go? 116.58.201.21 (talk) 16:16, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Concise index
[edit source]I got a list of words ( something like 250,000 words) and I want to retrive repeatedly some words starting with'a' or some words with an'e' as the 4th letter or a 'p' as the 3rd letter. How would a concise index look like? Do I need an index for each letter and position? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.4.145.10 (talk) 17:59, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
You could use a B-tree or even a binary tree on each letter of the word. However it should be noted that 250,000 words is a pretty small list as these things go. Just doing a linear search would not take very long. On my MacBook with a rather slow 1.7 GHz processor, "grep ^...e" to find all words in a 250,000 word list that have 'e' as the fourth letter takes 120 milliseconds. CodeTalker (talk) 18:21, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- Yes but the list is growing. Anyways I have more interest in the concept to optimize the search than on the search itself.~~|~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by B8-tome (talk • contribs) 19:26, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- I don't think that such an index would pay off unless you are repeatedly doing the same search. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 00:45, 30 July 2017 (UTC)