Unrooted tree path lengths

Unrooted tree path lengths

In computer science, the problem of unrooted tree path lengths is that of finding the number of paths of each length in a tree.

It is known that no algorithm can solve it in less than O("n"2) asymptotic time.Fact|date=February 2008


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