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Apr 9, 2014 at 18:14 comment added Ben Voigt And then there's removing a candidate from consideration without fully processing it. For example, finding the set of non-negative numbers with the minimum sum, you don't actually have to sum each set completely, only go until the sum exceeds the current best. This is a similar idea to pruning but orthogonal. Combining the two ideas yields "branch-and-bound", where a problem of reduced complexity is solved and used to justify pruning.
Apr 9, 2014 at 16:51 history answered Yuval Filmus CC BY-SA 3.0