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Ask HN: What is your favorite algorithm and why?

• dvt 7y ago
  My favorite data structure is the splay tree[1] and one of my favorite algorithms is the Boyer-Moore majority vote algorithm[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree [2] http://www.cs.rug.nl/~wim/pub/whh348.pdf http://www.cs.rug.nl/~wim/pub/whh348.pdf
• 22century 7y ago
  I like Euclidean Algorithm. Solves metric crapton of problems in elementary number theory and basic abstract algebra.
• aidaoftheheart 7y ago
  Djikstra shortest path. it's a beautiful design.
• arberavdullahu 7y ago
  BFS and DFS. Simple and quite useful!