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sinks -- returns the sinks of a digraph

Synopsis

Description

A sink of a Digraph D is a vertex of D that has no children. That is, v is a sink of D if and only if there are only edges pointing into v; none can be pointing out (there is no edge of the form (v,u)).

i1 : D = digraph({a,b,c,d,e},{{a,b},{b,c},{b,d},{e,b}});
i2 : sinks D

o2 = {c, d}

o2 : List

See also

Ways to use sinks :

For the programmer

The object sinks is a method function.