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For questions related to the A* (or A) search algorithm, which is a very famous state-space search algorithm and widely taught in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. A* is a best-first search algorithm that is guaranteed to find the optimal solution given an admissible heuristic function, so A* is also an informed search algorithm, as opposed to e.g. depth-first search, which is an uninformed search algorithm.

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