Oxbridges of Konigsberg
Feb. 11th, 2009 04:28 pmA 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...
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...
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Date: 2009-02-11 10:55 pm (UTC)I was thinking that it might be worth asking someone from the university messenger service, as presumably they have to do something along these lines. Or do they split the job between several people, too?