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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? by chaoxu on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:34PM (#18244029)
Thanks! Do you use that algorithm for anything in your research?
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm? by GautamGoel on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:40AM (#18247250)
Not directly. I briefly thought that a certain computational number theory problem might involve subset sums, but alas, it turned out to be the wrong approach.