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Designing the right algorithm for a given application is a major creative act—that of taking a problem and pulling a solution out of the air. The space of choices you can make in algorithm design is enormous, leaving you plenty of freedom to hang yourself.
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Skiena, S. (2020). How to Design Algorithms. In: The Algorithm Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54256-6_13
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