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Travelling Salesman, by director Timothy Lanzone, is the story of four mathematicians hired by the U.S. government to solve the most elusive problem in computer-science history: P vs. NP. [77] Solutions to the problem are used by mathematician Robert A. Bosch in a subgenre called TSP art.
Caravan (travellers) A caravan (from Persian کاروان kârvân) or cafila (from Arabic قَافِلَة qāfila listen ⓘ) is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition. [1] Caravans were used mainly in desert areas and throughout the Silk Road, where traveling in groups aided in defense against bandits as ...
Pochteca. Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. The trade or commerce was referred to as pochtecayotl. Within the empire, the pochteca performed three primary duties: market management, international trade, and acting as market intermediaries domestically. [1]
Peddler. A Peking fruit seller, c. 1869. Peddler in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) [a] is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods. In 19th-century America the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exemplified in the popular play Sam'l of Posen ...
When travelling, traders could travel individually or in groups, or they could attach themselves to an annual caravan. [1] Along the trade routes, local or residential tribes would establish and maintain resting posts for the traveling merchants. [1] The scouts often used these trading posts to guide the caravans along the correct trade routes. [1]
Drakkhen is an early- 3D role-playing video game, initially developed and published by Infogrames for the Amiga and Atari ST, and subsequently ported to several other platforms, including MS-DOS and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was a very early game in the North American SNES library, and as such, received almost universal coverage ...
The Venetian slave trade refers to the slave trade conducted by the Republic of Venice, primarily from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Middle Ages. The slave trade was a contributing factor to the early prosperity of the young Republic of Venice as a major trading empire in the Mediterranean Sea. The Venetian slave trade were divided in to ...
Caravanserai (Persian: کاروانسرای, romanized: kārvānsarāy), is the Persian compound word variant combining kārvān "caravan" with -sarāy "palace", "building with enclosed courts". [6] Here "caravan" means a group of traders, pilgrims or other travellers, engaged in long-distance travel. The word is also rendered as caravansary ...