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karmakurtisaani
on April 17, 2024
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Solving the minimum cut problem for undirected gra...
The first approximation algorithm, invented by Erdős. The best known by Goemans and Williamson achieves about 0.868 (IIRC) approximation, and is a thing of beauty as well.
akoboldfrying
on April 18, 2024
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A rare example of a constant-factor approximation algorithm with a constant that's... actually useful in practice.
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