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| + | My favorite demonstration in MATLAB is the Traveling Salesman App. It is an algorithm that calculates a visual representation of the traveling salesman problem that aims to calculate the shortest route through certain cities that then returns to the origin. It is a famous problem in graph theory, that can often be complicated to calculate. I like how this is an interactive program where the user inputs the number of cities, and the computer displays points and routes on the map that move around "calculating" until it finishes running. It is a good example of how programming and MATLAB can quickly compute and visually display answers to mathematical problems that would take longer to do by hand. This grabbed my attention because it reminded me of my studies of Graph Theory in my IB Math Class. | ||
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Nikhil Vanderklaauw
Pratt Student from NYC :)
Getting Solar off the Ground, Lee Billings, Seed Magazine, created July 28, 2009, accessed September 13, 2014
My favorite demonstration in MATLAB is the Traveling Salesman App. It is an algorithm that calculates a visual representation of the traveling salesman problem that aims to calculate the shortest route through certain cities that then returns to the origin. It is a famous problem in graph theory, that can often be complicated to calculate. I like how this is an interactive program where the user inputs the number of cities, and the computer displays points and routes on the map that move around "calculating" until it finishes running. It is a good example of how programming and MATLAB can quickly compute and visually display answers to mathematical problems that would take longer to do by hand. This grabbed my attention because it reminded me of my studies of Graph Theory in my IB Math Class.
