The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
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Author: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
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Chapter 6.4, Problem 22MS
Hunt for Hamilton (S). A large island country has all its cities on the coast. All the airline routes between cities fly over the interior of the island. The graph shows the cities as vertices and the airline routes as edges. Can you find a Hamiltonian circuit in this graph? Why or why not?
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Chapter 6 Solutions
The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
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