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Tom Leighton (6.848J) from class notes

kerr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kerr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 2 00:36:55 1990

"It is a bit of a surprise that the minimum weight spanning tree (MST)
problem is solvable on a n x n mesh;  it was the only major graph operation
for which such an algorithm was not known until 1886, when Bruce Maggs and
Serge Plotkin discovered it while doing a problem set for this class."

(that's 1986 not 1886)

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