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By Mo_Huzaifa, history, 23 months ago, In English

UCV2013B — Alice in Amsterdam, I mean Wonderland

This is a graph problem from spoj

Can anyone tell me how to solve it??

Link :https://www.spoj.com/problems/UCV2013B/

Thanks in advance

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Solve using Floyd-Warshall algorithm with a special case of containing a negative cycle.

https://cp-algorithms.com/graph/all-pair-shortest-path-floyd-warshall.html

If there exists a negative cycle, running the algorithm two times will produce lower distance than running it once (or as the blog says, the distance from a vertex to itself will be negative).

I advise you read the algorithm first, then handle the case with negative cycles.