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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 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htfb.livejournal.com
I did too much maths at Oxford, and therefore I am qualified to talk about this---because I once missed the deadline for getting the marks from my intercollegiate classes into pigeon-post...

It wasn't every college I had to go to but it does take Too Long. I think that after Catz I took a rough anticlockwise circuit of the city walls, before heading towards St Hilda's.

Date: 2009-02-11 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j4.livejournal.com
Faster than a speeding pigeon! :-)

So how long did it take -- or rather how long do you reckon it would take an average cyclist -- to get round all/most of them?

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