To assess how "well-connected" two nodes in a directed graph are, one can not only look at the length of the shortest path between them, but can also count the number of shortest paths.
This turns out to be a problem that can be solved efficiently, subject to some restrictions on the edge costs. Suppose we are given a directed graph G = (V, E), with costs on the edges; the costs may be positive or negative, but every cycle in the graph has strictly positive cost. We are also given two nodes v, w ε V. Give an efficient algorithm that computes the number of shortest v-w paths in G. (The algorithm should not list all the paths; just the number suffices.)
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