Problems without Optimal Substructure
- Longest path problem
- Least-cost airline fair. (Using Orbitz, we will frequently find that the cheapest flight from airport A to airport B involves a single connection through airport C, but the cheapest flight from airport A to airport C involves a connection through some other airport D.)
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