Consider the DAG in Figure 3. Please give the canonical topological sort of this DAG. Figure...

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Consider the DAG in Figure 3. Please give the canonical topological sort of this DAG. Figure 3: DAG on the vertex set A, B,..., G, H. EXPLANATION: In general, topological sorts are not unique. But suppose the nodes are totally ordered. E.g., if the nodes are integers 1,2,..., n or they are alphabetic a,b,c,..., z, then there is an obvious ordering of the nodes. Whenever your algorithm has a choice about which node to output, you must output the one that is the least in this node ordering. This results in a unique topological sort that we call "canonical". Consider the DAG in Figure 3. Please give the canonical topological sort of this DAG. Figure 3: DAG on the vertex set A, B,..., G, H. EXPLANATION: In general, topological sorts are not unique. But suppose the nodes are totally ordered. E.g., if the nodes are integers 1,2,..., n or they are alphabetic a,b,c,..., z, then there is an obvious ordering of the nodes. Whenever your algorithm has a choice about which node to output, you must output the one that is the least in this node ordering. This results in a unique topological sort that we call "canonical".

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