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  2. Special cases of Apollonius' problem - Wikipedia

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    In general, the same inversion transforms the given line L and given circle C into two new circles, c 1 and c 2. Thus, the problem becomes that of finding a solution line tangent to the two inverted circles, which was solved above. There are four such lines, and re-inversion transforms them into the four solution circles of the Apollonius problem.

  3. List of NP-complete problems - Wikipedia

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    The program is solvable in polynomial time if the graph has all undirected or all directed edges. Variants include the rural postman problem. [3]: ND25, ND27 Clique cover problem [2] [3]: GT17 Clique problem [2] [3]: GT19 Complete coloring, a.k.a. achromatic number [3]: GT5 Cycle rank; Degree-constrained spanning tree [3]: ND1

  4. Linear programming - Wikipedia

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    However, some problems have distinct optimal solutions; for example, the problem of finding a feasible solution to a system of linear inequalities is a linear programming problem in which the objective function is the zero function (i.e., the constant function taking the value zero everywhere).

  5. Sextic equation - Wikipedia

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    Watt's curve, which arose in the context of early work on the steam engine, is a sextic in two variables.. One method of solving the cubic equation involves transforming variables to obtain a sextic equation having terms only of degrees 6, 3, and 0, which can be solved as a quadratic equation in the cube of the variable.

  6. Travelling salesman problem - Wikipedia

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    Solution of a travelling salesman problem: the black line shows the shortest possible loop that connects every red dot. In the theory of computational complexity, the travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the ...

  7. Assignment problem - Wikipedia

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    The problem can be solved by reduction to the minimum cost network flow problem. [11] Construct a flow network with the following layers: Layer 1: One source-node s. Layer 2: a node for each agent. There is an arc from s to each agent i, with cost 0 and capacity c i. Level 3: a node for each task.

  8. Lagrange polynomial - Wikipedia

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    Lagrange and other interpolation at equally spaced points, as in the example above, yield a polynomial oscillating above and below the true function. This behaviour tends to grow with the number of points, leading to a divergence known as Runge's phenomenon; the problem may be eliminated by choosing interpolation points at Chebyshev nodes. [5]

  9. Problem of Apollonius - Wikipedia

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    To locate a second point on the lines L 1, L 2 and L 3, Gergonne noted a reciprocal relationship between those lines and the radical axis R of the solution circles, C A and C B. To understand this reciprocal relationship, consider the two tangent lines to the circle C 1 drawn at its tangent points A 1 and B 1 with the solution circles; the ...