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for consensus purposes you only care about the longest paths (blockchains) in the tree (hence chain) and ignore the other paths (dead blockchains)
SN should have read this comment and there ain't enough sats even before BIP0042 to get his old attention.... I dunno if he'd agree or disagree or just laugh at the word "longest", although there is a directed weighing that could help us all reach consensus.