home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.math,tum.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!LRZnews!noce!masa
- From: masa@nws.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Matthias Sauer )
- Subject: Minimum number of lines that cover a set of points
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.163800.21271@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
- Sender: masa@noce (Matthias Sauer )
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:38:00 GMT
- Lines: 13
-
-
- I am looking for an algorithm for the following problem:
-
- Given a set P of points in the plane find a minimal
- number of straight lines such that every p in P is
- on at least one of these lines.
-
- I am almost sure that there is some standard algorithm for this problem,
- but I could not find any. Please send an e-mail to:
- sauer@nws.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
- or post an article in sci.math or tum.questions
-
- So long, and thanks for all the fish!
-