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A challenge for the cartographically minded among my readers:

What's the most efficient route for visiting all Oxford's colleges?

Method of transport: bicycle. No other restrictions except that you must pass the lodge of each college. Doubling back on yourself is allowed (despite the title of the post!).

A reminder of the location of all the Colleges can be seen on this hopefully accurate map from the University website.

ETA:

I do realise this is a hard problem (Owen says it may even be an NP-hard problem) but thought it might've been the sort of thing that you clever people had already done... like the "visit all the underground stations in a day" challenge, kind of thing...

Date: 2009-02-11 06:15 pm (UTC)
lnr: Halloween 2023 (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnr
Zooming out a bit it looks like St Stephen's House and Wolfson would be the obvious end points actually, and that LMH and Catz are going to both be a bit of a nuisance.

Date: 2009-02-11 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] martling.livejournal.com
Ah. I didn't know about Wolfson hiding out there.

Do the halls count?

Date: 2009-02-11 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsenag.livejournal.com
Luckily Templeton is no more.

Date: 2009-02-11 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j4.livejournal.com
Ditto Greyfriars, so this problem is two whole colleges easier than it would have been a year ago! :)

Date: 2009-02-11 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j4.livejournal.com
Sorry, yes: colleges and PPHs.

Date: 2009-02-11 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htfb.livejournal.com
But not Ripon College, Cuddesdon.

Date: 2009-02-11 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j4.livejournal.com
Were it still part of ox.ac.uk I'd consider including it just to make a point, but probably not in a lunch-hour...

Date: 2009-02-12 07:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htfb.livejournal.com
Is it not? I'd say "Things have changed around Oxford since my day" were it not a conceptual impossibility and a waste of a perfectly good trope.

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