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trav·el·ling sales·man

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagmannoun

    a salesman who travels to call on customers

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  1. travelling salesmannoun

    A man who travels, often within a certain territory, soliciting orders or selling goods.

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  1. Travelling salesman

    A travelling salesman is a travelling door-to-door seller of goods, also known as a peddler.

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  1. travelling salesman

    A travelling salesman, in the context of a mathematical problem, refers to an optimization problem in combinatorial mathematics and theoretical computer science. It involves a salesman who needs to travel between various cities, with each city being visited exactly once, and eventually, the salesman returns to the origin city. The goal of this problem is to find the shortest possible route for the salesman's journey. In a traditional context, a travelling salesman is a person whose job requires them to travel much in order to sell their company's goods or services.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of travelling salesman in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of travelling salesman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6


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