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Even paths in graph
Source: IOM 2017 #2
9/5/2017
In a country there are two-way non-stopflights between some pairs of cities. Any city can be reached from any other by a sequence of at most
100
100
100
flights. Moreover, any city can be reached from any other by a sequence of an even number of flights. What is the smallest
d
d
d
for which one can always claim that any city can be reached from any other by a sequence of an even number of flights not exceeding
d
d
d
?
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