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This algorithm is faster than the original r-optimal method, and computation times increase much less rapidly with problem size. The new algorithm makes it possible to solve large-scale travelling ...

And even the most unrelenting brute-force attack on the traveling salesman problem (TSP) might not be enough. Finding the shortest way around a 33-city route would require calculating the distances ...

The salesman can calculate the distance of all six possible routes and choose the shortest. This is the “brute-force” solution of the TSP. But what if there are 10 cities instead of three?