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Algorithms and Programs: An AI-Assisted Approach
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Algorithms and Programs: An AI-Assisted Approach

by Eric Braude
August 2026
Intermediate
144 pages
4h 23m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 7Greedy Algorithms

Imagine that you have 30 minutes to spare before an important meeting and many relevant, unread emails of various lengths and degrees of importance. Picking the emails by highest degree-of-importance / length is a rational way to quickly decide on your order of reading because you will read the lines with the highest value density first and you won’t waste time backtracking. It is not necessarily optimal, however.

A man scratching his head while looking at a list of six envelope icons, each labeled with Length and an Importance score. From top to bottom, the importance scores are 9, 7, 8, 5, 10, and 6.

This chapter addresses problems that can ...

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