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You're describing a trie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
by henrik_w 14y ago
You're describing a trie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie
- clarkmoody 14y agoThanks for the link! I guess he did say that in the article, but "trie" wasn't part of my algorithmic vocabulary...until now.
- joshuahedlund 14y agoMultiple software engineers independently arriving at the same obvious solution? Sounds like something somebody would try to patent today...
- sukuriant 14y agoThankfully many of the novel solutions that were created in the early days weren't created by people that just wanted a buck.