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2006-11-20 17:21:22 · 2 answers · asked by Vivek R 1 in Science & Mathematics Engineering

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Imagine that a travelling salesman has to hit, say, 100 cities in the USA, and he knows road distances between them, what's the minimum distance he has to travel to do all of them and come back home? There are numerous variations on this problem, but this kind of a problem usually defies mathematical analysis. It's called a "NP-hard' problem, which is a measure of the time it takes a computer to determine the optimum path.

2006-11-20 17:27:39 · answer #1 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0 0

Take a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman_problem

2006-11-21 02:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by rscanner 6 · 0 0

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