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in reply to Re^2: Highest total sum path problem
in thread Highest total sum path problem

Can you clarify the problem statement?

For instance, is it legal to try to do a tour of the matrix, to pick up as many high value cells as possible? If the priority is "max sum", followed by "min terms", then a "rook's tour" of the positive valued cells is in order.

Another idea, can you revisit a cell? What's to keep you from circling through 4 positive value cells forever?

Can you go "offline", by taking a longer tour than necessary?

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Re^4: Highest total sum path problem
by baxy77bax (Deacon) on Mar 05, 2020 at 17:03 UTC
    a) It is legal to do a tour of the matrix and pick up as many high value cells as possible. :)

    b) this is not legal... each cell can only be visited once (but if this was associated to some fintech problem where total sum is your account balance, I guess this would be a good way to boost it up :D )

    c)Yes you can go offline if the number of moves is higher that the total sum of the path toward the final value (cell), but this only holds if a path already exists. If it is the initial search then there is no reference and the condition does not hold (at least one path (solution) needs to exist )

    thnx I did not catch those conditions but now that you mentioned it i see how they are crucial for the problem

    by helping you I helped myself. Thank you !!!