- Dynamic programming is a powerful design technique used to solve computational optimization problems by breaking them down into simpler subproblems.
- The example problem involves finding the maximum number of non-intersecting ship routes that can connect towns on the north and south banks of a river, given sequences of town locations on each bank.
- A brute force solution would consider all possible route combinations, taking exponential time, while dynamic programming finds the optimal solution by building it up from optimal solutions to overlapping subproblems in polynomial time.