# Programming pearls: algorithm design techniques

@article{Bentley1984ProgrammingPA,
title={Programming pearls: algorithm design techniques},
author={Jon Louis Bentley},
journal={Communications of The ACM},
year={1984},
volume={27},
pages={865-873}
}
• J. Bentley
• Published 1 September 1984
• Computer Science
• Communications of The ACM
The September 1983 column described the "everyday" impact that algorithm design can have on programmers: an algorithmic view of a problem gives insights that may make a program simpler to unders tand and to write. In this column we' l l s tudy a contribution of the field that is less frequent but more impressive: sophisticated algorithmic methods sometimes lead to dramatic performance improvements. This column is built around one small problem, with an emphasis on the algorithms that solve it…
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