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Simpath is an algorithm introduced by Donald Knuth that constructs a zero-suppressed decision diagram (ZDD) representing all simple paths between two vertices in a given graph.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Knuth, Donald (2011). The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A. Addison-Wesley Professional: Boston, MA, USA. p. 254,275.
↑ Yoshinaka, Ryo; Saitoh, Toshiki; Kawahara, Jun; Tsuruma, Koji; Iwashita, Hiroaki; Minato, Shin-Ichi (2012). "Finding All Solutions and Instances of Numberlink and Slitherlink by ZDDs". Algorithms. 5 (2): 176–213. doi:10.3390/a5020176.

Graphillion library which implements the algorithm for manipulating large sets of paths and other structures.
A CWEB implementation by Donald Knuth.

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