Meshing for the Finite Element Method
The standard nite element method doesn’t need to know element neighbors; however, there are many times when dealing with a mesh when this is necessary. For example, there’s a fast algorithm to nd a random point hidden in one of 1,000,000 elements that will take, on average, 500 trials, rather than 500,000,
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