4600-project-2/README.md

# 4600-project-2

Project 2 for CSCE4600, for Team G4

We got a grade of 100% :D

Please ensure you've read and agree to abide by the license before continuing.
This software's source code was made public under a restrictive license with the intent to allow comparison of Project 2 solutions with other former course-members and members of the general public. I'm not liable for any academic stupidity that may result from attempted plagiarism of this work.

You have been warned.

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║  Created 2022-04-16   Updated 2022-05-13  ║
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## Build

Build with `make`

Run with `./main.out filename`

Clean with `make clean`

## Run

Run with `./main.out [input_f

## Analysis, Benefits and Drawbacks

### Analysis:
- We implemented the Graph Reduction algorithm on adjacency matrices, with some minor optimizations:
- By counting the number of remaining processes, and comparing it to the number of processes eliminated so far, we can detect when the algorithm has failed a single time, after which it'll fail forever.
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### Benefits:
- The graph reduction algorithm is very elegant, but also easy to optimize
- "Deleting" a node from an adjacency matrix can be performed by zeroing its respective row and column and re-running the algorithm, which is very simple!

### Drawbacks:
- The adjacency matrix representation is used without interpretation, making the output somewhat hard to read
- Our implementation of knot detection didn't pan out.

## Contributions:

### John Breaux:
- src/graph.cpp, inc/graph.hpp (graph implementation)
- src/main.cpp
- src/read.cpp, inc/read.hpp   (reading from graph)
- src/reducible.cpp            (graph reduction)
- .clang-format
- Makefile                     (Makefile)
- Readme.md
- Hosted the git repo

### Michael Laymon
- knotted.cpp