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  2. Sudoku solving algorithms - Wikipedia

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    Some hobbyists have developed computer programs that will solve Sudoku puzzles using a backtracking algorithm, which is a type of brute force search. [3] Backtracking is a depth-first search (in contrast to a breadth-first search), because it will completely explore one branch to a possible solution before moving to another branch.

  3. Brute-force search - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, brute-force search or exhaustive search, also known as generate and test, is a very general problem-solving technique and algorithmic paradigm that consists of systematically checking all possible candidates for whether or not each candidate satisfies the problem's statement.

  4. Clique problem - Wikipedia

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    The brute force algorithm finds a 4-clique in this 7-vertex graph (the complement of the 7-vertex path graph) by systematically checking all C(7,4) = 35 4-vertex subgraphs for completeness. In computer science , the clique problem is the computational problem of finding cliques (subsets of vertices, all adjacent to each other, also called ...

  5. Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm - Wikipedia

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    A string-matching algorithm wants to find the starting index m in string S[] that matches the search word W[].. The most straightforward algorithm, known as the "brute-force" or "naive" algorithm, is to look for a word match at each index m, i.e. the position in the string being searched that corresponds to the character S[m].

  6. Proof by exhaustion - Wikipedia

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    Proof by exhaustion, also known as proof by cases, proof by case analysis, complete induction or the brute force method, is a method of mathematical proof in which the statement to be proved is split into a finite number of cases or sets of equivalent cases, and where each type of case is checked to see if the proposition in question holds. [1]

  7. Key stretching - Wikipedia

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    Key stretching also improves security in some real-world applications where the key length has been constrained, by mimicking a longer key length from the perspective of a brute-force attacker. [1] There are several ways to perform key stretching. One way is to apply a cryptographic hash function or a block cipher repeatedly in a

  8. Dynamic programming - Wikipedia

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    Brute force consists of checking all assignments of zeros and ones and counting those that have balanced rows and columns (n / 2 zeros and n / 2 ones). As there are 2 n 2 {\displaystyle 2^{n^{2}}} possible assignments and ( n n / 2 ) n {\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{n/2}}^{n}} sensible assignments, this strategy is not practical except maybe up to ...

  9. Search algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Specific applications of search algorithms include: Problems in combinatorial optimization, such as: . The vehicle routing problem, a form of shortest path problem; The knapsack problem: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit and the total value is as ...