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Named after Andrew Yao.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A kind of geometric spanner, a weighted undirected graph connecting a set of geometric points with the property that, for every pair of points in the graph, their shortest path has a length that is within a constant factor of their Euclidean distance. Full definition →
Named after Andrew Yao.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.