A historical note on the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesman problem
@article{vanBevern2020AHN, title={A historical note on the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesman problem}, author={Ren{\'e} van Bevern and Viktoriia A. Slugina}, journal={ArXiv}, year={2020}, volume={abs/2004.02437} }
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