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Open Problems in Computational Geometry

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In this paper we present a collection of problems whic have defied solution for some time. We ope that this paper will stimulate renewed interest in these problems, leading to solutions to at least some of them.

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Urrutia, J. (2002). Open Problems in Computational Geometry. In: Rajsbaum, S. (eds) LATIN 2002: Theoretical Informatics. LATIN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2286. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45995-2_4

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