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closest-pair problem.
Posted on 2012-04-08
Can anyone explain why, for the closest-pair problem, that the number of such points in the rectangle that is left after the minimum distance is determined for each half, cannot be more than 7 points?
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Here is a nice explanation from stack overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9829086/why-do-we-compare-at-most-7-points-in-closest-pair-algorithm
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9829086/why-do-we-compare-at-most-7-points-in-closest-pair-algorithm
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