We don't have a complete solution to the traveling salesman problem for very large numbers of locations.

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Finding the shortest possible route visiting a long list of locations becomes exponentially harder as the list grows, and no fully efficient general solution exists. Logistics, chip design, and delivery networks all run into this limit.

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Created at: 2026-07-20T10:04:00Z

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