Shortest Path – Bellman Ford algorithm

Here are my notes on how to implement the Bellman Ford algorithm to find the shortest path of a graph:

This is along the lines of what Rob Conery describes in The Imposter’s Handbook. And here is my c++ implementation of this:

The above is a vertex oriented walk through the graph, where we visit each vertex and calculate the costs to every outwardly connected vertex. I have found it simpler to just walk through an array of edges, which cuts down some complexity:

To keep this simple, I left out the optimisation to break out of the outer loop when no more updates are made.

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