alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agoNot everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k)sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1389arrow-down19
arrow-up1380arrow-down1imageNot everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k)sh.itjust.worksalphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squarecatastrophicblues@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoSurely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?
minus-squarejjagaimo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoIt’s essentially the traveling salesman problem
Surely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?
It’s essentially the traveling salesman problem