Tries

How to efficiently store and represent strings using a trie data structure.

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 74th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.

This week, we discuss tries, a data type that efficiently represents and stores a set of words. Thanks to their properties, they have many practical applications, such as autocomplete word systems, spell checkers, and word game solvers.

The outline is as follows:

• Introduction to t…