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- From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
- Subject: Re: proof wanted 2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.054510.23470@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1993Jan8.195646.1694@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:45:10 GMT
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- cazelaig@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Cazelais Gilles) writes:
- # n
- #Is it true that if C is a nonempty closed subset of R and x is a point not
- #in C that there exists a point c in C that is closest in C to x.
- #
- #i.e. such that: |x-c'| >= |x-c| for all c' in C.
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- Take a closed ball around x that intersects C. Evidently, it is
- enough to look for the closest point in the intersection of C
- and that ball, but this intersection is closed and bounded in
- R^n, hence compact, and so the function on it which is defined
- as the distance to x has to attain its minimum. So the answer
- to your question is yes.
-
- -Danny Keren.
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