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[[Donald Knuth|Donald Knuth's]] '''Algorithm X''', first presented in November of 2000, is a [[recursiverecursion function(computer science)|recursive]], [[nondeterministic]], [[depth-first]], [[brute-force]] [[algorithm]] that finds all solutions to the [[exact cover]] problem represented by a matrix ''A'' consisting of 0s amd 1s.

The goal is to select a subset of the rows so that the digit 1 appears in each column exactly once.