Abstract: | Consider d ? 2, and m points X1, …, Xm that are independent uniformly distributed in 0, 1]d. It is well known that the length Tm of the shortest tour through X1, …, Xm satisfies limm→∞ E(Tm)/m1?1/d = β(d) for a certain number β(d). We show that for some numerical constant K, . |