Flann

Flann is both an English surname and an Irish masculine given name, but has also been used as a feminine given name.[1] It might refer to:

• Flann Fína mac Ossu, another name for King Aldfrith of Northumbria (died 704 or 705)
• Flann mac Lonáin (died 896), Irish poet
• Flann Sinna (died 916), also called Flann mac Maíl Sechnaill, High King of Ireland
• Flann Mainistrech (died 1056), Irish scholar
• Flann O'Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966)

FLANN, an acronym for Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors, is a C++ library for approximate nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional spaces.[2]

References

1. "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Flann". Medieval Scotland. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
2. Arul Suju, Hancy Jose, FLANN: Fast approximate nearest neighbour search algorithm for elucidating human-wildlife conflicts in forest areas doi:10.1109/ICSCN.2017.8085676