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[General] Backtracking

Posted: Sat 12 Dec, 2009 6:47 pm
by Wesley
If anyone remembers my old post about permuting all the possibilities of a data set using factoradic numbers, I am now trying to permute in a different manner - via backtracking.

Does anyone know how backtracking works? I can't seem to find any good explanations on the web (Wikipedia's definition is quite different from what I've been learning).