Introduction to Algorithms
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Author: Thomas H. Cormen, Ronald L. Rivest, Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein
Publisher: MIT Press
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Chapter 23.1, Problem 7E
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To show that any subset of edges that connects all vertices and has minimum total weight must be a tree and by using an example show that it is not true for some weights to be non-positive.
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