Backtracking
When you explore a search space and you reach a dead end, you follow your tracks back to the last crossroad and try the other way.
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Naming › Data Structures and Algorithms: “When you explore a search space and you reach a dead end, you follow your tracks back to the last crossroad and try the other way.”