Stan Rogers has a knack for writing songs that sound older than himself, this song shows he doesn't need nautical themes to do it. Some other programming and math songs Kill -9 [link] Find the longest path [this video]
Finding the longest path in a graph is itself a pretty well-described NP-complete problem: [link] Alternately, you can listen to a Billy Joel parody that describes the problem in decidedly less academic terms: [this video]
Billy Joel parody explaining the longest path problem informally
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