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I'll start with what I do not mean by this question. I know you need to know programming and data structures, but what I am asking about is specific algorithms and theorems.

The ones I can enumerate now (edited after some answers):

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I followed the link for Spectral Decomposition, and noped right out when I saw the banner "This article may be too technical for most readers to understand."

Great list though, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Regular expressions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not an algorithm or theorem, but specializing to the input is a good general tip to at least get an answer ime

In terms of algorithms: flood fill is useful, a few other graph algos like min-cut/max-flow come in useful sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'd love to learn about a Chinese Reminder Algorithm to stop forgetting so much stuff ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
  • A* algorithm
  • honestly a lot of other graph algorithms, just be aware of them, and be able to find algorithms you didn't know before
  • OEIS
  • SMT solvers
  • set operations on intervals