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2 unusual facts about Greedy algorithm


Greedy algorithm

In the Macintosh computer game Crystal Quest the objective is to collect crystals, in a fashion similar to the travelling salesman problem.

Small-world routing

Nearly every solution to the problem of routing in small world involves the application of greedy routing.


Václav Chvátal

he studied a weighted version of the set cover problem, and proved that a greedy algorithm provides good approximations to the optimal solution, generalizing previous unweighted results by David S. Johnson (J. Comp. Sys. Sci. 1974) and László Lovász (Discrete Math. 1975).


see also

Sidon sequence

For the other direction, Chowla and Mian observed that the greedy algorithm gives an infinite Sidon sequence with A(x)>c\sqrt3{x} for every x.