The reflexive transitive closure of the “follows” relation tells us who can be reached by following zero or more steps.
“关注/跟随”关系的自反传递闭包告诉我们:通过零步或多步跟随,哪些人是可达的。
In graph theory and databases, we often compute the reflexive transitive closure to answer reachability queries efficiently, even when the original relation is not transitive.
在图论和数据库中,我们常计算自反传递闭包来高效回答“可达性”查询,即使原始关系本身并不具备传递性。