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Revision 4 . . (edit) September 30, 2001 11:00 pm by Zundark [fix link]
Revision 3 . . September 7, 2001 2:26 am by Zundark [define for arbitrary subsets of metric spaces]
Revision 2 . . August 28, 2001 10:59 pm by Zundark [fill it in]
  

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The diameter of a graph is the distance between the two vertices which are furthest from each other. The distance between two vertices a and b is the minimum number of edges that one has to follow to get from a to b.
The diameter of a graph is the distance between the two vertices which are furthest from each other. The distance between two vertices a and b is the minimum number of edges that one has to follow to get from a to b.

The two definitions given above are special cases of a more general definition. The diameter of a subset of a metric space is the least upper bound of the distances between pairs of points in the subset. So, if A is the subset, the diameter is
:sup { d(x, y) | x, y in A }.


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