Homework 17: Simple Graph Search

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(1 point) Suppose you treat the integers as a graph. In other words, there are an infinite number of vertices; 0 is adjacent to -1 and 1; 1 is adjacent to 0 and 2; and so on. This representation is similar to the “number line” that is sometimes used to teach basic arithmetic.

If you were to perform a breadth-first search, starting at 0 and with a goal of 3, in what order would the integers be visited? Assume that the neighbors of each integer are returned in their natural order (for example, the neighbors of 0 are -1 and 1, in that order).