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- From: gwoeging@iaik.wu-wien.ac.at (Guestaccount G.Woeginger)
- Subject: Re: Minimum number of lines that cover a set of points
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.105945.16142@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 10:59:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.163800.21271@news.lrz-muenchen.de> Matthias Sauer writes:
- >
- >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
-
- This problem was shown to be NP-complete in the beginning of the 1980ies
- by van Emde Boas. I think his paper was called "Another NP-completeness
- result" or something like this, and it is also mentioned in one of
- Johnson's NP-completeness columns.
-
- Gerhard Woeginger
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