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- From: Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: HELP!! Inscribed Circle Problem
- Originator: dodson@bach.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.162610.12890@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:26:10 GMT
- Reply-To: dodson@convex.COM (Dave Dodson)
- References: <27AUG199211184436@cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <27AUG199211184436@cs.umass.edu> RCollins@cs.umass.edu writes:
- >[...]
- >Rather than check all 6 million points every time, it would
- >be best to set up a 2D histogram by latitude and longitude,
- >then only check those KMarts that fall in the same bucket as
- >the customer.
-
- Good posting, and good idea, but you would have to check the customer's
- bucket and the buckets that are adjacent to the customer's bucket, since
- the customer and nearest KMart might be near a bucket boundary but on
- opposite sides of it.
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