note
ff
To paraphrase my comment in a recent node, [id://423248], if you generate about 30 random solutions and score them with some kind of criteria, the top scorer has a high likelihood of being close to the optimal solution. <p>(I'm happy to share this as one of the most useful/interesting things I learned in all my college days, from an Operations Research class some 20+ years ago. :-)
434412
434456