• catastrophicblues
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    6 months ago

    Surely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?

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      6 months ago

      It’s essentially the traveling salesman problem