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The Algorithm Design ManualSecond EditionSteven S. SkienaThe Algorithm Design ManualSecond Edition123Steven S. SkienaDepartment of Computer ScienceState University of New Yorkat Stony BrookNew York, 978-1-84800-069-8e-ISBN: 978-1-84800-070-4DOI: Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British LibraryLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2008931136c Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permittedunder the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or trans-mitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case ofreprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the use of registered names, trademarks, etc.

Rather than laboring from scratch to produce a new algorithm for every task, they can figure out what is known about a particular problem. Rather than ... • False Starts – Algorithms textbooks generally present important algorithms as a fait accompli, obscuring the ideas involved in designing them and the

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