Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The guy who found Waldo computed the longest American road trip

Road_trip

Is visiting every state on your bucket list? What about every major landmark?


When Tracy Staedter at Discovery News saw a map going around Facebook claiming — but failing — to hit all the major landmarks in the U.S., she saw a challenge



She contacted Randy Olson, a doctoral student at Michigan State, and asked him to compute one of the most complicated road trips ever. (Olson previously computed the optimal search pattern for finding Waldo in all the Where's Waldo puzzles.)


The "optimized" road trip hits all 48 contiguous states (sorry Hawaii and Alaska), and includes 50 stops at National Natural Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Parks, and National Monuments. There are two stops in California, and one in D.C. — plus the other 47 states — to get to 50. Read more...


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