1954 n=49

1962 n=33

1977 n=120

1987 n=532

1987 n=666

1987 n=2392

1994 n=7397

1998 n=13509

2001 n=15112

2004 n=24978

Applegate, Bixby, Chvátal, and Cook (1994) found the optimal tour for a 7,397-city TSP that arose in a programmable logic array application at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

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