Euler Path Problem: Cross Bridges No More Than Once
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Traveler's Dilemma
One day, travelers in a faraway land came upon a river with an island in the middle. On the other side of the island, the river continued but it formed two branches. The travalers also saw seven bridges that crossed the river in seven different places. Upon attempting to cross one of the bridges, an old gatekeeper appeared in front of the travelers and gave them this warning:
"If you cross any bridge, you must cross all seven bridges but you may not cross a bridge more than once."
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The travelers disappeared into the thin air.
Let's transform this map into a graph:
In the graph, the vertex1 represents the island, which is connected to the lands by 5 bridges, vertices 2, 3 and 4 represent the lands. This graph has 7 edges, ...
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