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diameter

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Definition: The maximum of the distances between all possible pairs of vertices of a graph.

See also degree.

Note: The distance between two vertices u and v in a weighted graph is the sum of weights of the edges of a shortest path between them. For unweighted graph, it is the number of edges of a shortest path.

From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 20-26, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

Author: CRC-A

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "diameter", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 4 January 2005. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/diameter.html