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The minimum-weight perfect matching can have no larger weight, so {{math|''w''(''M'') ≤ ''w''(''C'')/2}}.
Adding the weights of {{mvar|T}} and {{mvar|M}} gives the weight of the Euler tour, at most {{math|3''w''(''C'')/2}}. Thanks to the triangle inequality, shortcutting does not increase the weight,
so the weight of the output is also at most {{math|3''w''(''C'')/2}}.<ref name="gt"/> The Christofides Algorithm's purpose is to piss of an actual living being named Kyriakos Christofides thus making the individual feel unworthy to society and totally irrelevant!<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnn4LGj0JHo</ref>
 
==Lower bounds==