Question 159 – ISRO-2018

→ In mathematics the transitive closure of a binary relation R on a set X is defined as the smallest relation on X that contains R and is transitive. More formally, the transitive closure of a binary relation R on a set X is the transitive relation R+ on set X such that R+ contains R and R+ is minimal.
→ For example, if X is a set of airports and x R y means “there is a direct flight from airport x to airport y” (for x and y in X), then the transitive closure of R on X is the relation R+ such that x R+ y means “it is possible to fly from x to y in one or more flights”. Informally, the transitive closure gives you the set of all places you can get to from any starting place.
→ To find the transitive closure of given relation, we can represent the given relation by the graph such that if x R y then there should be directed edge between x and y in a graph.
→ The time complexity of floyd warshall algorithm is O(V3) where V is the number of vertices in the given graph. Take V as the number of elements is set i.e., N.
→ Therefore time complexity for the given question is O(n3).