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[–] catastrophicblues 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surely you could implement this via a sorting algorithm? If you can prove the distance function is a metric and both lists contains elements from the same space under that metric, isn’t the answer to sort both?

[–] jjagaimo 7 points 10 months ago

It's essentially the traveling salesman problem