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Chinese postman problem

In graph theory and combinatorial optimization, Guan's route problem, the Chinese postman problem, postman tour or route inspection problem is to find a shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of an (connected) undirected graph at least once. When the graph has an Eulerian circuit (a closed walk that covers every edge once), that circuit…

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Chinese postman problem

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples18
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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Chinese postman problem

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related to Variants · 8
Chinese postman problem → Chinese, In, New York Street Sweeper, NP-complete, Rural Postman Problem, The, The Mixed Chinese, When
related to External links · 7
Chinese postman problem → Eric, MathWorld, Media, Route, Weisstein, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
see also · 2
Chinese postman problem → Chinese, Travelling
has application · 1
Chinese postman problem → Various

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problem graph t-join postman edge vertices chinese every edges find time undirected route inspection circuit solution paths one connected number

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Chinese postman problemhas applicationVarious0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksWeisstein0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksEric0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksMathWorld0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksRoute0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to External linksWikimedia Commons0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to VariantsNP-complete0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to VariantsThe0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to VariantsIn0.60section
Chinese postman problemrelated to VariantsThe Mixed Chinese0.60section

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