traveling salesaunt (so much regret)
We reviewed the entire book and rewrote sentences, paragraphs,
and sections to make the writing clearer, more personal, and
gender neutral. For example, the “traveling-salesman problem” in
the previous editions is now called the “traveling-salesperson
problem.” We believe that it is critically important for engineering
and science, including our own field of computer science, to be
welcoming to everyone. (The one place that stumped us is in
Chapter 13, which requires a term for a parent’s sibling. Because
the English language has no such gender-neutral term, we
regretfully stuck with “uncle.”)