Aunc.1690 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!zeppo!chico!duke!unc!smb Mon Jan 11 21:41:36 1982 Apology re unc.1688: USENET map Several folks have pointed out to me that my statement about the difficulty of constructing a map is wrong. Rather than being "np", the problem of finding all shortest paths is only o(n**3), i.e., proportional to the cube of the number of nodes in the net. Even when we egghead academicians come up with useful results, I get them wrong.... *sigh* Oh, for a net-wide news cancel command! ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.