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2026-08-26
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Complexity
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Approximation Algorithms — Trading Exactness for a Guarantee
The craft of giving up on the optimal answer while attaching a price tag that reads "never worse than X times optimal". We build up the approximation ratio, carry a greedy proof all the way to the end, and see why the triangle inequality flips the entire conclusion for the traveling salesman problem.