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- DictionaryTravelling salesman problem
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- 1. a mathematical problem in which one has to find which is the shortest route which passes through each of a set of points once and only once.
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The travelling salesman problem, also known as the travelling salesperson problem (TSP), asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city?" It is an NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization, important in theoretical computer science and opera... Wikipedia