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Does the minimum spanning tree of a graph give the shortest distance between any two specified nodes?

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Does the minimum spanning tree of a graph give the shortest distance between any two specified nodes?
posted Oct 29, 2013 by Mona Sharma

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No.
Minimal spanning tree assures that the total weight of the tree is kept at its minimum. But it doesn’t mean that the distance between any two nodes involved in the minimum-spanning tree is minimum.

answer Oct 29, 2013 by Vikas Upadhyay
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