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 | | The traveling salesman problem (TSP), also known as the traveling salesperson problem, is a problem in discrete or combinatorial optimization. |
 | | The most direct solution would be to try all the combinations and see which one is cheapest, but given that the number of combinations is N! (the factorial of the number of cities), this solution rapidly becomes impractical. |
 | | In most cases, the distance between two nodes in the TSP network is the same in both directions - the special case where the distance from A to B is not equal to the distance from B to A is called Asymmetric TSP and has some practical applications. |
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