Gao, JunSteele, John M2023-05-232023-05-231994-05-012016-06-24https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/42171The sum of squares of the edge lengths of the tour provided by the spacefilling curve heuristic applied to a random sample of n points from the unit square is proved to be asymptotically equal to a periodic function of the logarithm of the sample size.spacefilling curvestraveling salesman problem (TSP)minimal spanning treecombinatorial optimizationorder statisticssums of squaresMathematicsScience and Mathematics EducationArticle