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Cayley's theorem and a method for approximating e

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon*
Affiliation:
Winchester College
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A tree is a network of vertices connected by edges such that the removal of any edge disconnects the network. In the language of graph theory a tree is a connected simple graph in which every edge is a bridge. Here are all the trees with 4 vertices.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 72 , Issue 462 , December 1988 , pp. 293 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1988

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