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We review the state of the art in the problem of counting the number open knight tours, since the publication in internet of a computation of this quantity.
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Our goal is to quickly find top $k$ lists of nodes with the largest degrees in large complex networks. If the adjacency list of the network is known (not often the case in complex networks), a deterministic algorithm to find a node with the…
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