Talk:Dijkstra's algorithm

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Latest comment: 8 years ago by Jackrepenning in topic Description: "Pencil arrows" vs. "parents"

Any video of animation available?

That animation is killing me. I so much want to carefully look at it's calculations, but they flash up there for just a half second. It is maddening.

That animation does not work as described. The calculated cost as shown in the animation is 20, while the correct one based on the described procedure is 28 (or 26 if bidirectional [1]) [1]: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Dijkstra's_algorithm#Java — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckorakidis (talkcontribs) 19:31, 17 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

Description section of artice

In the second paragraph after the note, it says "This is done by determining the sum of the distance between an unvisited intersection and the value of the current intersection". There should be two intersections following between, but there is only one intersection since value is not an intersection.

The phrase, "This is done by determining the sum of the distance between an unvisited intersection and the value of the current intersection" should be changed to read, "This is done by adding the value of the current intersection to the distance between the current intersection and an unvisited intersection". RHB100 (talk) 00:34, 12 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Pronounciation of the inventors name

Could we add the correct phonetical expression for the inventors name? Anyone researching for this topic will have trouble to pronounce the name correctly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:80C0:7EC:E8F6:F2B8:8896:A526 (talk) 10:33, 22 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Description: "Pencil arrows" vs. "parents"

A paragraph in the Description advises "in pencil, mark the road with an arrow pointing to the relabeled intersection." The next paragraph talks about a visited node's "parent." I think these are talking about the same thing, but it's not very clear. Perhaps better wording might be "by following the nodes' parents (that is, traversing the arrows backward)", or perhaps in the first paragraph, "mark the road with an arrow pointing to the relabeled intersection (from 'parent' to 'child')" --Jackrepenning (talk) 18:54, 24 September 2016 (UTC)Reply