Gray codes...
Brendan McKay
bdm at cs.anu.edu.au
Wed Feb 18 05:45:04 CET 2004
* Gordon Royle <gordon at csse.uwa.edu.au> [040218 14:55]:
>
> Also a small comment... I always thought that the correct phrase was
> "Hamilton cycle" or "Hamilton path" and that the adverb form
> "hamiltonian" is only used when saying that the graph itself is
> "hamiltonian". Saying "hamiltonian path" seems odd... anybody else
> agree (or disagree)?
By the MathSciNet-hits measure, hamiltonian is more common in
both cases:
hamilton path 114
hamiltonian path 612
hamilton cycle 365
hamiltonian cycle 916
hamilton graph 14
hamiltonian graph 2467
Brendan.
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