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The math of getting from here to there without walking through walls or wasting your whole life.
means Computing the best route between two points through a maze of obstacles, distances, and costs.
from A plain compound of path and finding, but it became a technical term in 1950s-60s computer science as robots and routing software needed to navigate without a human guessing.
The classicA* algorithm, born 1968, still rules games today.
DijkstraHis route algorithm was scribbled in 20 minutes.
EverywhereGPS, video games, and warehouse robots all rely on it.