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Re:The Most Important Algorithms by j_baker on Monday July 05, 2010 @08:56PM (#1489602)
Nice list. I would probably generalize #1 into graph traversal though.
Re:The Most Important Algorithms by nostrademons on Monday July 05, 2010 @09:00PM (#1489608)
Probably yes. I figure that trees come up so often that tree traversal on its own would be #1.

I did add topological sort to the list after remembering just how many times (and for different domains!) I've had to implement one, but other graph traversal algorithms like BFS/DFS are quite useful too.