cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8619086
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It’s like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can’t ask your friends for help because they’re sitting three seats down.
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Good thing I don’t know enough people for me to ever go to the movies in that big a group.
You also need to account for where the really tall people are in the row in front of you. Social optimization be damned, I want to see!
And group people based on how loud their snacks are.
Also, am I the only one hating that person who keeps talking how the seating is suboptimal while everyone else tries to watch the movie?
Optimal seating for this group would probable be this graph left to right, except for one-way crush person, they go on the very right.
First couple > bottom friend > top friend > second couple > top right friend > 1-way crusher
Friends are within 1 seat of each other.
The group in this comic is bizarrely low connectivity for what is supposedly a friendship group. Not a single 3-cycle of actual friends among them?