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Composition of Relations

Written as a Java method, the composition of two adjacency matrices A and B giving a result matrix C resembles matrix multiplication:

void compose(int n, boolean[][] A, boolean[][] B, boolean[][] C)
{
  for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
    for (int j=0; j<n; j++)
    {
      C[i][j] = false;
      for (int k=0; k<n; k++)
        C[i][j] = C[i][j] || (A[i][k] && B[k][j]);
    }
}