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It was one of the grand challenges in the 00's, quietly solved by John Ratcliff. Then a few people solved it after him.
It's a fun algorithm. You basically slice and dice, like chopping a potato, then recombine small parts together based on a heuristic.
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It was one of the grand challenges in the 00's, quietly solved by John Ratcliff. Then a few people solved it after him.
It's a fun algorithm. You basically slice and dice, like chopping a potato, then recombine small parts together based on a heuristic.