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Comment by usrusr

8 days ago

"Any sufficiently sparse graph is indistinguishable from a linked list" comes to mind ;)

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gowld  8 days ago

A linked list is sparse by the metric of minimum maximum degree (2).

A maximally sparse connected graph by mean (degree edge/node ratio) is any tree (mean degree ~ 1), not necessarily a linked list.

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