http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ritesha Just another Embarcadero Blogs weblog Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:54:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi!!!!   /* PROBLEM STATEMENT Here, the salesman is given the distance chart by his/her manager based on which (s)he has to cover all the cities in the distance chart but ensure that (s)he covers the MINIMUM DISTANCE. For better text, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem. */         / drop table salesmans_scrambled_dist_chart; create table salesmans_scrambled_dist_chart (       source      varchar2(5),       destination varchar2(5),       distance    number(5,0) ); truncate table ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ritesha/2011/02/15/travelling-salesman-problem/ Due to my 'lazy' mind fidgeting around, I came up with the following :-) the following article gives the complete code (yes, it's redistributable!) to generate the distinct alphabets that are possible, if the list of alphabets to be used are known [in the table - elements_for_scramble] (through Oracle PL/SQL - ... http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ritesha/2011/02/14/scrambler-oracle_package/