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ATCODER BEGINNER CONTEST 061
By i_love_sharapova, history, 4 years ago, In English

i was solving problem D-SCORE ATTACK of ABC 061 and i tried implementing classic bellman ford algorithm by changing the weight to -ve weight ,so as if any negative cycle occurs then that means score will be continuously increasing but i am getting WA ,i don't know where i am making mistake and i have assumed that graph is connected so either my assumption is wrong or i am implementing wrong algorithm .please can you guys help ? sorry if my english is bad.

here is my code
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You could have a negative cycle, which isn't on the main path.

N = 5
1 5 2
1 2 5
2 3 -1
3 2 -1
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    so does it mean that we can't have any negative cycle on any vertex except at N.

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      You can't have a cycle on any path between 1 and N, as that will become the shortest path.

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