Chinese postman problem

noun

Etymology

Originally studied by the Chinese mathematician Kwan Mei-Ko in 1960, whose Chinese paper was translated into English in 1962. The name "Chinese postman problem" was coined in his honour, and is varyingly ascribed to Alan J. Goldman or Jack Edmonds, both of the US National Bureau of Standards.

Definitions

  1. The problem of finding the shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of a…

    The problem of finding the shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of a (connected) undirected graph.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Chinese postman problem. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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