Histogram calculation on the GPU using CUDA

A histogram is a very important statistical concept used in a variety of applications such as machine learning, computer vision, data science, and image processing. It represents a count of the frequency of each element in a given dataset. It shows which data items occur the most frequently and which occur the least frequently. You can also get an idea about the distribution of data by just looking at the values of the histogram. In this section, we will develop an algorithm that calculates the histogram of a given data distribution.

We will start by calculating a histogram on the CPU so that you can get an idea of how to calculate a histogram. Let's assume that we have data with 1,000 elements, ...

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