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These lecture notes is about algorithms, especially combinatorial algorithms. Put in its basic form, an algorithm is a set of simple, unambiguous, step-by-step instructions for accomplishing a specific task. Note that the word computer doesnt appear anywhere in this definition; algorithms dont necessarily have anything to do with computers. True though, these notes focus (almost) exclusively on algorithms that can be reasonably implemented on a computer. In other words, each step in the algorithm must be something that either is directly supported by a programming language (arithmetic, assignments, loops, recursion, etc.) or is something that the reader already learned how to do in an earlier subjects (sorting, binary search, depth first search, etc.).Added by blueshark on 2007-01-22 03:03:40
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