I think... it will work :)
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Rohit Saraf
Second Year Undergraduate,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Bombay
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~rohitfeb14


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, divya <sweetdivya....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Given a graph's shortest path algorithm, how can you make use of it to
> find the second shortest path?
>
> my solution
> well just a thought...
> is it something like.....assume this is the smallest distance path....
> start->node1->node2->node3->node4->destination
> (now the graph will be represented by a matrix of order 2)
> in order start breaking any of the link(break only one)
> eg:- break the link start->node(i.e. delete the entry in the matrix
> which connects start and node1)
> and then again use dijikras to find a distance(store it)
> now again link the start node with the node1 and break the node1-
> >node2 and find a distance...
> after getting all the distances.....find the min...that will be the
> second min of all...
> hope i am going on the right track....tell me if i am wrong...thanks
>
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