[Cialug] Need An Algo Suggestion

[Jeffrey Ollie]

Linked lists are a data structure, not an algorithm.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:53 PM Nathan C. Smith <NSmith at hhlawpc.com> wrote:

> I would have thought Linked List.
>
>
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> This is called in general graph theory. Each number is a node and the
> relations between them are edges. I haven't dealt with it much but I'm sure
> that there are a bazillion packages out there that implement various
> algorithms.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:19 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not a programmer. Not really. If I had a list of things like this:
> >
> >  1,2
> >  2,3
> >  2,4
> >  3,6
> >
> > how would I map them so that I can see that 1 refers to 2, 2 refers to 3
> > and 4, and 3 refers to 6, so:
> >
> >  1,2,3,6
> >  1,2,4
> >  2,3,6
> >  2,4
> >  3,6
> >
> > Like that? I want to build up those chains. Every chain has an end.
> There's
> > no infinite loops. But some have multiple paths.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to do that, and I'm not sure what to call it for the
> > purposes of DDGing it.
> >
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