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#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Most Beautiful Algorithm in Computer Science?
The algorithm is called the birth of the giant component. So we start out with n points and we add m edges. Now it probably has a one component that's much bigger than the others. The graph gets bigger, gets more and more connected as we add these things one at a time. Each edge is completely, we forgot about edges we had before. We might get an edge twice. But maybe pi is going to have a run of four digits in there. It's a magical thing happens when the number of edges is like 0.49.
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