in reply to Re^3: Tree in perl
in thread Tree in perl

This does not look as a cycle or a circle to me.

Why not?

1 2 2 3 1 3 DO YOU SEE IT NOW? [1,--2] | | | [2,3] | | [1,----3]

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Re^5: Tree in perl
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 18, 2014 at 15:30 UTC
    To elaborate further ... One might dispute (or rather get confused) if the graph is directed or not¹, but in either case it's certainly not a tree.

    1 /| 2 | \| 3

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    Furthermore asking for the "shortest" path in a tree doesn't make much sense, there is by definition exactly one between any two nodes.

    Cheers Rolf

    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

    ¹) the definition above circumvents the problem by postulating an undirected graph.