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A modification of Warshall's algorithm for the transitive closure of binary relations

By Henry S. Warren
Communications of the ACM, April 1975, Vol. 18 No. 4, Pages 218-220
10.1145/360715.360746
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An algorithm is given for computing the transitive closure of a binary relation that is represented by a Boolean matrix. The algorithm is similar to Warshall's although it executes faster for sparse matrices on most computers, particularly in a paging environment.

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