0.1.3 • Published 12 years ago
ancestor v0.1.3
#Most recent common ancestor an implementation in javascript.
var findAncestor = require('ancestor')
var nodes = {
  1: [],
  2: [1],
  3: [2],
  4: [2],
  5: [4],
  6: [3, 5],
  7: [6],
  8: [5],
  9: [8]
}
/* the graph:
    4-5-8-9   
   /   \
1-2-3---6-7
*/
var readParents = function(id) {
  return nodes[id]
}
var result = findAncestor([9, 7], readParents)
// returns:
5