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I see it as the following, he views breadth first as just skimming over each book, seeing the books that are related to it when sitting side by side (perhaps wh
by foxh0und 9y ago
I see it as the following, he views breadth first as just skimming over each book, seeing the books that are related to it when sitting side by side (perhaps when in another users cart), as opposed to depth, which goes into each item, and then goes deeper picking out books from within that book.
- durovo 9y agoFrom what I understand, the author needs to brush up his knowledge about depth first search. Scanning the book for references to other books would normally be a part of breadth first search. Also, a bfs would yield books that are more related to the selected book than a DFS.
- platz 9y agobut those books this new method finds might not be books that customers are likely to buy, even with the new information. perhaps they are just bad books but are still referenced in such a way.
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