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Exercise #4: Minimising Wires in Circuits

Electronic circuit designs often need to make the pins of several components electrically equivalent by wiring them together.

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To interconnect a set of n pins we can use an arrangement of n-1 wires each connecting two pins.

What kind of algorithm would …

  • help us find the arrangement with the least amount of wire?