Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

There's insane amounts of great stuff hidden in the various nooks and crannies of the NIST website. Some of my other favorites:<p>Engineering Statistics Handbook <a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm</a><p>Digital Library of Mathematical Functions <a href="http://dlmf.nist.gov/" rel="nofollow">http://dlmf.nist.gov/</a><p>The Quantum Algorithm Zoo <a href="http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/" rel="nofollow">http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/</a>

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This dictionary looks like it's the index of The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/dp/0387948600" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...</a>

So, how many of these algorithms do you think are covered by litigatable software patents?

Nothing for Rete? <i>Come on</i>.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm</a>

"Don't use this to cheat" - how quaint. There was once a time when there was an economics of scarcity in information...

If you're interested in glossaries of this type, there's a great one (with pictures!) in the back of The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/dp/1849967202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;qid=1304116197&#38;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...</a>

Interesting, Would be great if there were some sort of tag/taglike system for the properties/usages.