alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoNot everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k)sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1402
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minus-squarecatastrophicblues@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoSurely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?
minus-squarejjagaimo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoIt’s essentially the traveling salesman problem
Surely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?
It’s essentially the traveling salesman problem