Count Number of Trees in a Forest using C++

Given vertices of a forest ( collection of trees). The goal is to find the number of trees in that forest. We will do this by running a DFS (depth first search) algorithm on the forest.

For Example

Input

edges = { { 1,3 }, {2,8}, {2,6}, {3,5}, {3,7}, {4,8} }

Output

Count of number of trees in a forest are: 3

Explanation

The number of trees that are present in the forest are −

Approach used in the below program is as follows −

In this approach we apply Depth First search algorithm on the graph recursively. We will increment count if every connected node is marked visited from one source ( which means a tree is formed ).

• Take an integer vertice as a number of vertices on a graph.

• Take a vector vector<int> vec[vertice] for storing vertices as integers.

• Function insert(vector<int> vec[], int parent, int child) takes vec[] and adds an edge between nodes parent and child in that vector.

• Add edge using vec[parent].push_back(child) and vec[child].push_back(parent).

• Function recurred(int temp, vector<int> vec[], vector<bool> &check) applies DFS on graph from starting vertex temp.

• Array check[temp] is used to set nodes as visited/unvisited using true/false.

• Traverse vector vec[] using for loop and if check[vec[temp][i]] is false then call recurred(vec[temp][i], vec, check) recursively for connected nodes.

• Function Trees_Forest(vector<int> vec[], int vertice) takes vec[] and returns the count of trees in the forest given as adjacency list in vec[].

• Take initial count of forests as 0.

• Take vector<bool> check(vertice, false) to mark vertices of graph as visited.

• Traverse all vertices using for loop.

• If check[i] is false then apply dfs using recurred(i, vec, check) and increment count.

• At the end of all loops return count as result.

Example

 Live Demo

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
void insert(vector<int> vec[], int parent, int child){
   vec[parent].push_back(child);
   vec[child].push_back(parent);
}
void recurred(int temp, vector<int> vec[], vector<bool> &check){
   check[temp] = true;
   int size = vec[temp].size();
   for(int i = 0; i < size; i++){
      if (check[vec[temp][i]] == false){
         recurred(vec[temp][i], vec, check);
      }
   }
}
int Trees_Forest(vector<int> vec[], int vertice){
   int count = 0;
   vector<bool> check(vertice, false);
   for(int i = 0; i < vertice; i++){
      if(check[i] == false){
         recurred(i, vec, check);
         count++;
      }
   }
   return count;
}
int main(){
   int vertice = 9;
   vector<int> vec[vertice];
   insert(vec, 1, 3);
   insert(vec, 2, 8);
   insert(vec, 2, 6);
   insert(vec, 3, 5);
   insert(vec, 3, 7);
   insert(vec, 4, 8);
   cout<<"Count of number of trees in a forest are: "<<Trees_Forest(vec, vertice);
   return 0;
}

Output

If we run the above code it will generate the following output −

Count of number of trees in a forest are: 3