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traveling purchaser problem

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

Syllables
trav-el-ing pur-chaser prob-lem
IPA
42
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
5
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An NP-hard optimization problem. Given a list of marketplaces, the cost of traveling between different marketplaces, and a list of available goods together with the price of each such good at each marketplace, the task is to find the route with the minimum combined cost of purchases and travel.

Inflected Forms

traveling purchaser problems (plural)

Phrases

travelling salesman problem

Frequently Paired Words

travelling salesman problem

Questions

What does traveling purchaser problem mean?
An NP-hard optimization problem. Given a list of marketplaces, the cost of traveling between different marketplaces, and a list of available goods together with the price of each such good at each marketplace, the task is to find the route with the minimum combined cost of purchases and travel.

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