tsp_brute


tsp_brute, a Python code which is given a table of city locations, and solves small versions of the traveling salesman problem (TSP), using brute force.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

tsp_brute is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran77 version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. William Cook,
    In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman,
    Princeton University Press, 2012,
    ISBN13 978-0-691-16352-9.
  2. Gerhard Reinelt,
    TSPLIB - A Traveling Salesman Problem code,
    ORSA Journal on Computing,
    Volume 3, Number 4, Fall 1991, pages 376-384.

Source Code:

att06, att09, att12, att24 are the first 6, 9, 12, and 24 cities in the AT&T 48 city dataset. They are provided as warmup for the full 48 challenge. The brute force approach was only tried on the smaller cases!


Last revised on 17 June 2026.