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STL provides us with very useful algorithms and utilities. You start enjoying the usefulness of programming when you reap the benefits of these utils. In this article I will try to show you the usefulness of the std::bind2nd function. The basic idea behind bind2nd (or bind1st) is that it will take a binary function along with one of the parameters and bind it in a function object. This function object will be then a unary function. If all this sounds confusing then don't worry too much about it. You should read these first few lines again after you go through the example and hopefully then this will all make sense.

I have a created an example to illustrate how you can use std::find_if and std::bind2nd to search through a STL collection. I've tries to keep the example simple. Please let me know if you have trouble understanding the code. In this example we will create a collection of Person and we will search through this collection.

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Stochastic process is a concept that forms the base of a lot of statistical methods used in different fields of study. This is a simple yet very powerful idea that can help us capture the random nature of problems and formulate them in mathematical notation and hence use them in different applications.

This process has many applications and is readily used in the finance, physics and mathematics. Did you know that stochastic probabilities are used in many asset pricing models and also in the heat diffusion equation? The stochastic process is the way of representing and analyzing the random behavior in the stock prices or in heat diffusion.