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Named after its developers, Richard Bellman and L. R. Ford, Jr.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An algorithm that computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted digraph, capable (unlike the faster Dijkstra's algorithm) of handling graphs with negative edge weights. Full definition →
Named after its developers, Richard Bellman and L. R. Ford, Jr.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.