Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bellman-ford algorithm

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

Syllables: bell-man--ford al-go-rithm
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph, capable (unlike the faster Dijkstra's algorithm) of handling graphs with negative edge weights.

Etymology

Named after its developers, Richard Bellman and L. R. Ford, Jr.

Inflected Forms

Bellman-Ford algorithms (plural)

Questions

What does bellman-ford algorithm mean?: An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph, capable (unlike the faster Dijkstra's algorithm) of handling graphs with negative edge weights.
Where does bellman-ford algorithm come from?: Named after its developers, Richard Bellman and L. R. Ford, Jr.

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