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The Shortest Path

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The shortest path problem asks for the lowest-cost way to travel from one vertex to another — a problem with efficient deterministic algorithms, solved billions of times a day.

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Every map route request between two pins is one more instance answered.

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The problem's easy shape hides a hard twin.