dancing links
nounEtymology
The name was suggested by Donald Knuth, because iterations of the algorithm cause the links to interact as if in an “exquisitely choreographed dance”.
Definitions
A technique for reverting the deletion of a node from a circular doubly-linked list,…
A technique for reverting the deletion of a node from a circular doubly-linked list, particularly useful for efficiently implementing backtracking algorithms.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dancing links. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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