Finding Solutions
Knuth's Algorithm X is a recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first, backtracking algorithm that finds all solutions to the exact cover problem.
Dancing Links, commonly known as DLX, is the technique suggested by Donald Knuth to efficiently implement his Algorithm X on a computer. Dancing Links uses the matrix representation of the problem. Dancing Links implements the matrix as a series of doubly linked lists of the 1s of the matrix: each 1 element has a link to the next 1 above, below, to the left, and to the right of itself.
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