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Old Jun 22, 2015 | 9:25 am
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Originally Posted by JohnAx
If the rules as published aren't ambiguous the software should be relatively easy to get right.

I'm not saying that will happen - it's far too difficult for entities of all types and sizes to successfully contract for (via internal IT or an external supplier) software.
Did you know that from a computational science perspective air pricing is not merely NP hard but actually it's undecidable? (i.e., an algorithm that always finds the lowest allowed price for a specified route in all circumstances does not exist.)

https://static.googleusercontent.com...arl_Sep-03.pdf

However in the context of rtw fares hopefully it shouldn't take too long to get somewhere.

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