article_snippet: The tricky part was putting the 50 landmarks provided in order to eliminate as much driving back on Mr Olsen as possible.
article_snippet: In Mr Olsen blog, Mr Olsen explains how Mr Olsen used information from Google Maps API and wrote code to discover the optimum distance to drive to all 50 landmarks.
article_snippet: With 50 landmarks to put in order, we would have to exhaustively evaluate 3 x 1064 possible routes to find the shortest one,' Mr Olsen wrote. '
article_snippet: If you started computing this problem on your home computer right now, you'd find the optimal route in about 9.64 x 1052 years
article_snippet: This complication is why Google Map's route optimisation service only optimises routes of up 10 waypoints.'