Empire Problem

上周以前大学同学分享探讨了一个编程问题,觉得还是挺有典型意义的(解法与题意理解上)。故在此记录下。

Problem
The empire has a capitol and a number of cities. Some cities are connected to other cities. A route connecting two cities can transport a message in both directions. All cities are reachable using some path from the capitol city. The connections among all cities are described in an adjacency matrix with the format shown below. At the start, a message is sent from the capitol city to all other cities, and we want to know what’s the minimal time for a message to spread out from the capitol to the whole empire.
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