The Shortest Distance Between Two Pints

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A two-year project by an international team of mathematicians has mapped shortest possible journey to visit 25,000 pubs across the UK, and set a new record for the longest "traveling salesman problem" ever solved. Jeff and Anthony discuss pub crawls, math, and 2 years spent on this kind of thing.

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0:00.0	Merchandising, Merchandising.
0:02.6	Yeah, that's a good way to start this.
0:04.6	That lets people know that we're just, we're still their regular, regular old friends
0:09.0	that don't want anything from them except their money.
0:11.4	What's up?
0:12.4	Now we've got merch for you.
0:14.0	Go to wehaveconservids.com slash shop and check out the new Brock Life T-shirt, Sam
0:19.0	and Canon T-shirt, Jetpack Rescue Squad T-shirt.
0:21.6	So many T-shirt!
0:30.0	The Greyleaf Symptoms of Medtily.
0:39.6	I'm enjoying you.
0:41.8	This is We Have Concerns.
0:42.8	Hi Jeff Canada.
0:43.8	Hi Anthony Carbony.
0:44.8	Hello.
0:45.8	Concerned citizens.
0:47.7	Have you ever heard of something called the Traveling Salesman Problem?
0:51.2	The Traveling Salesman Problem I have.
0:53.8	Yeah.
0:54.8	I have, but I don't know if I remember what it is about.
0:57.7	It is basically a mathematical exercise where you try to create a path through space,
1:06.9	a path along a geographical route that is the shortest distance between two points.
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