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Sometimes - Punch Press Optimization, the Travelling Salesman Problem, Isohodes,& the Great Question

Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 9:24 am
by stahrwe
The Habitation of Chimham Publishing is proud to announce the release of our latest book Sometimes - Punch Press Optimization, the Travelling Salesman Problem, Isohodes, and the Great Question.

It is available on Amazon by searching Sometimes Floriani, ISBN 978-0989969635 or clicking this link
Sometimes

"The famous Travelling Salesman Problem is easy to state: given a number of cities on a map, find the shortest path which visits each one and returns to the starting point. It's easy to write a program to solve it, but as the number of cities increases, it quickly becomes impossibly slow, even on modern computers. Why, then, would anyone try solving it hundreds of thousands of times? Maybe if someone did, we might learn something new about this famous problem, or about the even more famous question about P versus NP. Sometimes it's worth doing something foolish like that."

Re: Sometimes - Punch Press Optimization, the Travelling Salesman Problem, Isohodes,& the Great Question

Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 9:54 am
by Chris OConnor
Stahrwe, I'll create a new thread right now. I have a puzzle I cannot seem to solve and could use your help.