Implement BFS, DFS, Shortest Path, topological sort and Minimum Spanning Tree (bonus for union-find version).

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This involves working out the shortest path that takes in all points on a given route.

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Their algorithm, which they call P4P or "local file-sharing, " tracks users' locations to find the shortest path across the Internet.

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My route to the ladies room which was not only the shortest path, but had previously served as a great flirting strategy got changed, too.

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The archipelago is a hazardous traffic median in the great circle route, the shortest path between ports on either side of the North Pacific.

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The two biggest economies in Asia are ailing at the same time, and both Beijing and Tokyo have decided that government intervention is the shortest path to long-term growth.

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And, unfortunately for the Milk Board and for Goodby, it stands to reason that rankling segments of a key target audience (mik-buying women) is unlikely the shortest path to increased sales.

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In the world of the internet, operators are looking at ways of marrying up the algorithms that find the shortest path through a network and those that control the speed with which information flows.

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Yamaha designed the model with left-right symmetrical audio circuitry to provide the shortest circuit path for audio signal travel without loss of audio signal purity.

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Where large boulders, vertiginous cliff faces and impenetrable gorges force the path to divert, it follows the shortest route around the obstacle back to the next breathtaking vista.

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