When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

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I'm sitting here, and doing some homework, flow networks. And a question lead me to think, how to determine if a shortest-path is unique (I want to know is a min-cut is unique).<BR><BR>This is ...

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