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Total no. of distinct cycles in undirected graph
By aya1909, history, 4 years ago, In English

How to count total no. of distinct cycles in an undirected graph. Graph may be disconnected. Constraints: 0<= no. of nodes <=10

Answer for given image is 7

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4 years ago, # |
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Number of nodes is very small, so a brute force solution should work in O(n * n!).

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    what is that brute force solution?

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    actually no. of nodes can be upto 20

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      In this case you can make a dp solution in O(n^2 * 2^n) (dp[mask][i][j] is 1 if there exists a path from i to j that contains all positions in mask, you can then loop over all of these and check if one of these completes the cycle)

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        it require more than 4*10^8 space.is that possible?

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          3 years ago, # ^ |
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          solve individually for each i value (store the amt of cycles for each length so we can divide by that length later), then you cut down on memory

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