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by tel 4599 days ago
Definitely. In a (directed) tree there are exactly 0 or 1 paths between two nodes. There's no such thing as a shortest path. In an undirected tree there's exactly 1 path between any two nodes---even worse.

You might be representing a graph with a tree however if your nodes are labeled and you want to talk about the shortest path between two nodes quotiented by those labels.