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Visualization of the travelling salesman problem

posted by Jason Kottke   Apr 27, 2016

The traveling salesman problem is a classic in computer science. It sounds deceptively easy: given any number of cities, determine the shortest path a traveling salesman would have to travel to visit them all. This video shows how the "obvious" solution — "well, just start somewhere and always visit the next closest town!" — doesn't hold up well against other approaches. (via @coudal)