Overall Running Time

Accounting:

Total time is time for initialization plus time for each iteration times maximum number of iterations. How many iterations?

O((|V|+|E|)+|V|(|V|+|E|)) = O(|V||E|) (best algorithm known is $O(\sqrt{\vert V\vert}\vert E\vert)$.


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