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CodingHardcod-g472
Subject Max flowLevel Senior–Staff~40 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development, Technology

Question

Given a connected undirected graph with n nodes (0..n-1) and edges [u, v] (each edge has unit capacity; parallel edges increase capacity), return its global edge connectivity: the minimum number of edges whose removal disconnects the graph (equivalently the global minimum cut). For n <= 1 return 0. Use max-flow/min-cut: fix one node and take the min over all other nodes of the s-t max flow. Assume 1 <= n <= 60 so repeated unit-capacity max-flow finishes under 5s.

Implement
edge_connectivity(n: int, edges: list[list[int]]) → int
Examples
in[4,[[0,1],[1,2],[2,3],[3,0]]]out2
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