Exploring the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)

Graph theory seeks to address different situations or problems in business application or organisational setups. TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) is usually considered NP-hard (nondeterministic polynomial time) in solving decision problems. This is because there are more than one possible action or directions when deciding to traverse through every city or vertex in a given graph with the goal or returning to the original. Taking some journey down the historical lane, the TSP problem was formulated in1800s by an Irish mathematician W.R Hamiltion and his British counterpart Thomas Kirkman. 

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