This dimension sorts algorithms by their basic category, sorting, searching, graph or numerical. Wikipedia defines an algorithm as "any well-defined set of instructions that when followed terminates after a finite number of steps that comprise a solution to a given computational problem." Browsing by category keeps algorithms solving the same kind of problem grouped together.
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1. Wikipedia: Graph theory
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The term "graph" was introduced by James Joseph Sylvester in a paper published in 1878 in Nature, where he drew an analogy between "quantic invariants" and "co-variants" of algebra and molecular diagrams.
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