Kruskal's Minimum Spanning Tree
Sort edges by weight, greedily accept any that does not form a cycle. Union-find detects cycles.
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A weighted undirected graph. Edges sort by weight along the bottom. Each edge in turn either joins two components (accepted, drawn green) or closes a cycle (rejected, drawn red). The MST emerges with n-1 edges.
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Source & accuracy
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