Counting the number of paths in a network
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- Subject: [mg64561] Counting the number of paths in a network
- From: John Dickmann <jqd at mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:58:50 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I am interested in counting the number of paths from a node in a network back to that node, counting loops (cycles) only once. Is there any readily available code that does this? I found some code posted here a few years ago that counts the number of paths between two nodes, but am having trouble modifying it to complete the loop (it also enumerates each path, but I'm not really interested in that). More academically, is there perhaps a better measurement for the fundamental feature --namely the number of options available to someone to get information around a system? thanks for any help, John John Q. Dickmann Research Assistant Lean Aerospace Initiative Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bldg 41-205 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 jqd at mit.edu 401-225-3511