Professor Bundchen proposes the following heuristic to solve the vertex-cover problem. Repeatedly select a vertex of highest

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Professor Bundchen proposes the following heuristic to solve the vertex-cover problem. Repeatedly select a vertex of highest degree, and remove all of its incident edges. Give an example to show that the professor’s heuristic does not have an approximation ratio of 2.

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Introduction to Algorithms

ISBN: 978-0262033848

3rd edition

Authors: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest

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